Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MACDONALD London...
Michael C. D. Macdonald '60 and Michel J. Strauss '59, are organizing the showing, which is tentatively entitled "The Scholar as Collector." Numerous items have already been pledged for exhibit, including works of Picasso, Klee, Roualt, and Durer...
...this sociological theme, British Novelist Colin MacInnes has fashioned a book that for most of its length is as jaunty and bitterly Jumble-joking as the Spades themselves. Johnny MacDonald Fortune, 18, is the lad in from Lagos, Nigeria, wearing a white and crimson sweater, a nylon shirt with gold safety pins on each collar point, and a sky-blue gabardine jacket. The first thing he does in London, for the sky-blue hell of it, is to clamber up a down escalator. And in a sense that is what he does in rundown London for the rest...
President to Janitor. Sparking the move toward smaller but more numerous prizes is a handful of incentive firms that have made big business out of shooting adrenalin into salesmen. The biggest is Dayton's E. F. MacDonald Co., which last year had a hand in triggering the sale of $1 billion worth of merchandise. MacDonald urges firms to award varied prizes, usually merchandise on a point scale, thus give every salesman some incentive to better his work. Incentive firms are also responsible for the newest gimmick in incentive selling: getting the entire company, from the president to the janitor...
...Noisy Incentive. Many firms have gone a step farther, enlisted salesmen's families in ulcer-building campaigns to spur the breadwinner on. MacDonald regularly sends cards to the home showing the salesman's standing in a current company contest, gives wives tags to hang on furniture around the house to remind their husbands of the furnishings they can earn. Some firms have even sent buzzers and shrill whistles to a salesman's children; when dad asks what the noise is all about, the kids are instructed to tell him it's only a reminder to straighten...