Word: naish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen left in America," says Convair President Jack Naish, "with whom you can close a $100 million deal on his word alone." After Smith decided to order the Convair 600 jet, he called on Naish, chatted briefly about fishing and baseball, then suddenly blurted: "Hey, my guys tell me this 600 is a pretty good airplane." Naish agreed. Said Smith: "We want 25. How much will it be?" Naish told him $100 million. "O.K.," said C. R.-and walked...
...John V. Naish, 50, executive vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, moved up to president, succeeding General Joseph T. McNarney. 64, who is retiring (TIME, Jan. 20). Naish, brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, graduated from Fordham in '29, learned the industry from the bottom (he started as a mechanic) before he joined Convair in 1947, became executive vice president in 1952. ¶Walter A. Haas Jr., 42, vice president of San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss & Co., stepped up to president, succeeding his uncle (by marriage), Daniel E. Koshland, 65. Haas represents the fourth generation...
...befriended while they were sweating over some local ditchdigging. Impressed into helping them make a swampy getaway, Sal gradually gets into his hardening skull the idea that no bad man is all bad. The corollary: some of society's watchdogs (such as sadistic Prison Warden J. Carrol Naish) and false heroes (the millionaire trucker) can be absolutely no good...
With suggestions of ancient Greece in Boris Aronson's fine setting, with the neighborhood lawyer (J. Carrol Naish) acting as Greek chorus and talking poetically of the Greek and Sicilian past, A View plainly seeks to evoke the drama's great first home of guilty passion and fatal ignorance. But the play, in all this, only emphasizes how little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies...
Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). J. Carrol Naish in Wedding...