Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last May, a bustling young (29) voice coach, Kenneth Hieber, rounded up a group of young singers who were eager to be heard but did not have the $1,500 to put up for big-time debuts. They chipped in $25 apiece to cover costs, and, for the use of its 260-seat basement auditorium, gave the Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church a share in their company. Hieber got a veteran Broadway actor, Max Leavitt, to teach his singers how to act. Leavitt, in turn, gave the company a name. "Let's serve lemonade," he proposed, "and call it lemonade...
...Kenneth Safford Parker, 52, president of the Parker Pen Co., is an internationalist-minded businessman. His father, the late George Safford Parker, an old-fashioned drummer who started the company in 1891, wanted young Kenneth to have the best of everything, sent him to Paris and Stuttgart for his prep-schooling. But Kenneth Parker has a much bigger reason for being an internationalist-Parker Pen does 40% of its business (last year's gross sales: $18.9 million) outside the U.S. market...
Secretary of the Army, hulking, even-tempered Kenneth C. Royall, former Under Secretary of War and Secretary since Bob Patterson's resignation last month, a onetime North Carolina lawyer, wartime brigadier general in the Army Service Forces, whose ambition is to run for governor of North Carolina...
...Kansas City, big, hard-driving Kenneth Spencer, whose Spencer Chemical Co. has leased the Government's $20 million Jayhawk Ordnance Works (TIME, June 17, 1946), turned to rain making as a possible stimulant for his dry-ice sales. Spencer hired a crop-service plane, succeeded in bringing showers to Mission, Kans., Excelsior Springs, Mo. This week five farmers from Burlington, Iowa hired the same plane to make rain over their arid 1,500 acres; it made rain all right-over a golf course, leaving their farms still...
Last week Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug summoned 50 bigwigs to Washington. He called on Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the Army Air Forces' Lieut. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, to tell them of the fix the services were...