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...good position to do battle with Eastman Kodak, which is expected to enter the instant-picture market at about the time of the Pronto's national debut. Supersecretive Kodak is not saying just what kind of system it will market. Whatever it is, Polaroid President William J. McCune Jr., 60, who has taken over the company's day-to-day operations from Founder Land, says that Polaroid has been "planning for it." A $4 million Pronto advertising blitz is in preparation. Already an improved SX-70 film is in the works, and analysts have no doubt that...
Midway through the period, however, the Crimson began to break away on a number of 3-on-2 rushes that challenged Tufts' defense. In a scramble in front of the opponent's goal, Sue McCune finally tipped one home (15:15 unassisted) to put Radcliffe ahead to stay...
...years, Polaroid Corp. staffers wondered when Founder Edwin Land, 65, would start giving up some of the titles that he had held for 38 years: chairman, president, director of research. In a surprise move, the inventor-autocrat last week handed one of his jobs, the presidency, to William McCune Jr., 59, Polaroid's executive vice president and, since the founding of the company in 1937, its senior engineer. The surprise was not merely that Land finally anointed a possible successor, but also that McCune's new job did not go to General Manager Thomas Wyman, 45. A sales...
...McCune, who is amiable, relaxed and a more than occasional skier, does not have much of a background as a manager despite his many years at Polaroid. An M.I.T.-trained engineer, he helped Land develop the first instant-picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past...
...Harvard University campus. Charles E. Allen Jr. '70 Steven Roose '70 Robert W. Steinberg '69 Norman B. Epstein '71 Martin Hanlon '69 Noelle Caskey '70 David Palmer '70 Wesley E. Profit '69 Tracey R. Lecklider '69 Johnathan D. Ritvo '69 Michael A. Bundy '70 Joan S. Rubin Joe McCune '70 James Kilbreth...