Word: kenneths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andros Island, Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish tycoon (Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Bofors guns), has sunk $11 million in a long-range resort-and-home-building project. On the northern end of Andros, Parker Pen Co. Chairman Kenneth S. Parker is developing 8,500 acres of building and truck-gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach...
British critic and playwright Kenneth Tynan will arrive at Harvard tomorrow for a three day visit at Winthop House. During his stay, he will meet informally with Winthrop undergraduates and Faculty members interested in drama. Tynan is currently drama critic for the New Yorker, while on a year's leave from his regular reviewing duties for the London Observer...
...with Dan G. Allen, a limerock dealer, who gradually became aware that "the colored population was moving our way. They have to have some place to go." Allen discussed the problem last month with neighbors and city officials, got the cooperation of Negro leaders and of Real Estate Broker Kenneth Harris, who handled all the sales contracts (average selling price: $9,500) at a reduced commission. Better yet, the Negroes have good prospects for expansion: Pinehurst Courts faces onto a 300-acre undeveloped tract, ready for building...
...Kenneth Reckford, the director, has decked the production out with an enormous amount of comical business, including a hilarious if anachronistic blackboard lesson, and the attribution of an obscene epithet to various members of the audience. Commendable performances in smaller roles are turned in by Martin Kligerman, Andrew Hamilton, Frank Carden, Jeremiah Brady, and others...
Most economists of stature smile at the administered-prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have...