Word: mckibben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sculpture. The quality of the first category was high, with only four or five pieces of utter trash. The first prize in painting went for some reason to Fannie Hillsmith's "Pink Sofa," with other awards to Justin Curry, Glen Krause, Beverly Hallam, Henrik Mayer, John McClusky and Teal McKibben...
...brilliant mechanical engineer (Alabama Polytechnic, '22) with a long string of patents. Virginia-born William White Sproul Jr., 45, an electrical engineer, bosses the general industrial-products group, which includes elevators, airconditioning, plastics, small motors, etc. Appliances are under consumer products, run by ex-Adman John Meek McKibben, 51. Price is the overseer who keeps the top echelon pulling together, holds it responsible for meeting goals. All of them sit in on the overall management committee, which determines how high Westinghouse should set its sights for expansion...
...electricity," he points out, "has been doubling every decade since 1900, and is now doubling again." To keep Westinghouse doubling with it, Price has already spent $230 million on expansion, has earmarked $200 million more for the next three years. "We had the electron," says Appliance Boss McKibben, and Price supplies "the imagitron and the goositron...
Conroy, played by Edmund O'Brien, is not alone in his civic duties. He is joined by William Holden's two-and-a-half fisted newspaperman, Jerry McKibben, a tough type who splits his time between platitudes and flirting with Conroy's girl friend, Alexis Smith...