Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General "Mike" Scanlon (also now retired), Air Forces commander in New Guinea: "I don't know why they sent him up to New Guinea; he was not an operator and everyone from the kids on up knew...
...Loewy talks in a subdued voice that is, at the same time, apologetic and compelling. His face is reposed, gentle, sad, and as inscrutable as that of a Monte Carlo croupier. Obsessively shy, he is always "Mr. Loewy" even to his longtime associates. Even to those who know him well he is something of an enigma. Said one longtime acquaintance: "After all these years, I'm not even sure that I like him!" Everything he does calls attention,-with skilled showmanship, to his work, so that observers at times get the strange feeling that he too is a design...
...methods often mystify clients. When Chicago's Armour & Co. hired Loewy to redesign and repackage its 700-800 different products, he disappeared for about six months. Said Vice President Walter S. Shafer: "We didn't know what he was doing." Actually, Loewymen were out talking to hundreds of housewives who bought the products. When Loewy came back he told Armour to abolish all the multicolor labels that it had been using, and substitute a simple two-color pattern throughout. Armour saved enough money on color-printing alone to pay for the designer's services. As Lever Bros...
...does not know," noted Maugham of a man he met in the Far East, "how many of the notions he has hammered out in suffering and meditation are lamentably commonplace ... On the other hand, now and then, he has a charming and even original thought...
Lieut. General George H. Brett (now retired), who, says George Kenney, didn't even know how many planes he had in his command when Kenney came to succeed...