Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Named to succeed him was John Lyon Collyer, who at 45 still has years to burn. From Cornell (1917), Mr. Collyer went to work for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., soon switched to the rubber business. By last week, when he was tapped for Goodrich, Mr. Collyer was joint managing director of British Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., had touched most of the rungs of the production ladder...
...shortcuts. Last week Ethyl Gasoline's alert Vice President, Thomas Midgley Jr., compared the Calingaert discovery to a ferryboat which enabled loving but frustrated lads and lassies on opposite sides of a river to get together. "What a lot of fun we're going to have," said Mr. Midgley, "shoving that ferryboat around...
...Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...
...Fellows and Friday evening the first of the regular Nieman dinners was held at the Signet Society's clubhouse. Featured speakers at Friday night's were Archibald MacLeish, now Librarian of the Library of Congress in Washington; Ralph M. Ingorsoll, former member of the staff of Time, Inc.; and Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who attended many of the dinners last year and showed considerable interest in the work of the Nieman Foundation...
...Mr. Lyons, in addition to caring for the Nieman Fellowships and presiding at the Nieman dinners, will continue to work for the Boston Globe, with which he has been connected for 10 years. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College and has also done graduate work at Harvard...