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...Christmas this year, Lockheed and most other planemakers, Continental Oil Co.. Diamond Alkali are mailing letters wishing one and all a very merry holiday, but please do not send any gifts to our employees. Boeing Airplane, U.S. Steel, California Packing, Cutter Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift...
Despite 32 years of service with G.M., Donner is a man almost no one knows. He has made neither speeches nor cars. All he knows about the corporation-and it is a great deal-he learned not in the shops, like Curtice, Wilson, William S. Knudsen and Sloan, but from executive meetings, balance sheets and reports...
Died. Ann Daly Morrison, 72, wife of world-girdling Morrison-Knudsen (construction) Co.'s Chairman Harry Winford Morrison (TIME, May 3, 1954), known to many as the "First Lady of Construction" because since their marriage in 1914 she had traveled the world with him; of a circulatory ailment; in Boise, Idaho...
...metal pieces made from welded scrap iron Donald Knudsen's After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes surely has the more pretentious title but Joel Blatt's Death in Venice is the more successful effort, very effectively creating a scene and mood...
...last week, triggered a youth movement in G.M.'s upper echelons. Under Pontiac Boss Robert M. Critchfield, 61, who will move up to head G.M.'s entire process development staff, Pontiac in 1956 has slipped more than most other G.M. lines. By giving the job to Bunky Knudsen, 43, an engineer who showed a flair for sales as chief of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division, G.M. hoped to speed up Pontiac...