Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the weekend, Harvard's varsity wrestling and fencing teams competed in national tournaments. These stories and the adventures of the first two Harvard students ever invited to the NCAA alpine skiing championships, freshmen Alan Watson and Jay O'Rear, will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
...mother, Ad Schulberg, a 37-year veteran of the business. But few agents serve as a mother substitute as successfully as Candida Donadio, an exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Thomas Pynchon (V.), and Bruce Jay Friedman (A Mother's Kisses) worship her for her combination of good business sense and warm understanding of their difficulties. The trade calls her "the Den Mother of Black Humor...
Janczewski responded by playing what coach George Harrington '59 called "his best game of the season." Hitting mainly from the outside, the slender 6-6 star scored 13 points while reserves Jay Noble and Kerry Kane played a good floor games and let Harvard to a 39-36 half-time lead...
...King's Mistress. Corporations, insists Jay, are today's equivalent of pre-19th century states even down to geographic control of territories (Du Pont over Wilmington and Boeing over Seattle, for instance) and their near-absolute grip on the careers and movements of their subjects (employees). Thus today's corporate rulers should learn from their princely predecessors They should depend less on staff men (courtiers) and more on regional managers (barons), but at the same time not let the company become so decentralized that the barons will battle one another for the power that rightfully belongs...
They should encourage renaissances and watch out for reformations "If a corporation suffers from a Luther," concludes Jay, "it should start looking for a Loyola." They should search for signs of stagnation and morbidity. Spain started going to pot under Philip II, but the death rattles of empire were not heard until much later. Singer Sewing Machine Corp was sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes...