Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Civic Association's other two leading candidates, Gustave M. Solomons and Catherine T. Ogden, nearly tied each other for third and fourth places. James F. Fitzgerald took a comfortable second, Anthony Galluccio '39 fifth, with Daniel J. Hayes, Joseph E. Maynard and George F. Olesen, Jr. all fighting for sixth...
Died. Henning Webb Prentis Jr., 75, scholarly careerman (52 years) with Armstrong Cork Co., who rose to be president (1934-50), chairman (since 1950), president of the National Association of Manufacturers (1940); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Lancaster, Pa. As president, Prentis raised annual sales of Armstrong Cork from $22 million to $163 million, assets from $47 million to $112 million, by expanding into over 30 new businesses...
Credited with Westinghouse's climb back to high profits is onetime Management Consultant Mark W. Cresap Jr., 49, who took over as president in 1958, became chief executive officer last April. Under Cresap, Westinghouse has cut costs, improved low-profit product lines and reduced expenses...
...drive at high speeds, operate his motor boat in the roughest seas, set off powerful firecrackers (one of which ruptured his eardrum). He often buys clothes for his wife, personally outfitted the entire wedding party of one of his three daughters, all married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around the world, being with him, says Mrs. Kaiser, is "living with mayhem-and enjoying...
...lifetime career of troubleshooting. Father Henry J. worked out the broad ideas that built the Kaiser empire, stubbornly pushed them, in the face of ridicule and skepticism. Behind him, putting the ideas to work, came Edgar and a group of University of California college friends, including Eugene E. Trefethen Jr., new vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville, Ore. in the mid '30s, he turned the job over to Edgar, then 25, and Clay...