Word: lanphier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan executive suites of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., the widely diversified and often troubled manufacturer of heavy machinery. Last spring Executive Committee Chairman Alfons Landa and two vice presidents quit amid reports of angry board room battles for control of the company. Last week they were joined by Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 46, who resigned as president of the company's largest division, Fairbanks, Morse. Lanphier−the World War II ace who gunned down Japan's Pacific Commander, Admiral Yamamoto, and later rose to become vice president of General Dynamics' VConvair Division before joining Fairbanks...
...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 45, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was named president of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., a subsidiary of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp. A World War II fighter pilot (his bag: 15 Japanese aircraft, including one bearing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto), Lanphier joined Convair in 1954, became key man in long-range planning for Convair's Atlas missile program. But his blunt criticism of the Administration's defense effort and sharp attacks on rival missilemakers provoked General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace to ease him out. On his own, Lanphier stumped the country, pleading...
...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 44, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was appointed vice president in charge of planning of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp., a big (1959 sales: $149 million), diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost...
Emphasizing that he was wearing his orivate citizen's hat, Lanphier sandwiched in his remarks while acting as master of ceremonies at a squab and wild rice dinner hosted by Convair at San Diego's Kona Kai Club. He was "glad," he noted, that a Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne...
...often and bluntly have California missilemakers blasted off that veteran West Coast newsmen were barely impressed by Lanphier's hand grenades. But reporters visiting from the East were plainly shocked and sat down at their typewriters to say as much. Said a White House spokesman of Lanphier's performance: "It sounded incredible...