Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfectly dispassionate fashion. You can say to a man 'I thoroughly disagree with your judgment.' But you disagree with a woman's judgment and you disagree with the woman." To the dis- tress of the women and their clerical allies, the objectors won. Commented the Rev. Leland Stark of Washington, B.C.: "Every argument used against this resolution was urged against suffrage." Said...
When Broadway Producer Leland Hayward went to a LIFE editorial lunch six months ago he talked about the theater. But afterward he talked even more enthusiastically about his friend Ernest Hemingway's new novel, which he had just read while visiting the author in Cuba. To back up his claims for the book, Hayward sent a spare copy of the manuscript to LIFE'S editors. Result: this week LIFE (circ. 5,339,565) is publishing a special 20-page insert of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the first time in the memory of publishers...
...damn story that it should affect all of us (me especially) the way it does? . . . I'm very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE so that many people will read it who could not afford to buy it . . . It was wonderful luck Leland read it and showed it to you guys...
...good friend of Kate and the Hepburn family. This was the fate of many another Hepburn admirer. Some of them found it galling. Because Kate dislikes nightclubs, and lives a fairly cloistered life, only two of her romances have figured in the gossip columns. One was with Producer Leland Hayward (see PRESS), whose reading and tennis Kate tried hard to improve. The other was Howard Hughes, who was richer, taller, and better at golf than she was. But neither lasted...
Clean Sweepdown. Most of Dow's explosive postwar growth has come since 1949, when Leland Doan became president after the plane-crash death of his brother-in-law Willard Dow, son of the founder. Doan, now 57, joined the company soon after graduating from the University of Michigan (chemical engineering) in 1916. Rising through the sales department, he built a reputation as an organizer, and was made sales manager in 1929. When he took over the top spot in 1949, organization was just what the company needed. Under brilliant Willard Dow, the company had been a one-man show...