Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a deep sympathy for the underdog in this match of mere man v. monstrous job," wrote TIME'S armed forces reporter last week. The monstrous job: Secretary of Defense. The mere man: Neil Hosier McElroy...
...blue-eyed Neil McElroy encourages people to call him "Mac," has a soap salesman's knack for making new friends, introduces himself to strangers as "McElroy of Procter & Gamble." He enjoys parties, tennis, fishing, poker and bridge, tries to spend weekends with wife Camilla, son Malcolm, 14, daughter Nancy, 21 (another daughter, Barbara, 19, is married), is a working Episcopalian. At the office he is a stickler for accuracy, delegates large chunks of responsibility, expects subordinates to back up suggestions and arguments with facts. To forestall a conflict-of-interest problem, he will sell $56,000 worth of General...
...Nominated, to succeed Charles Erwin Wilson as Secretary of Defense, Procter & Gamble President Neil Hosier McElroy of Cincinnati...
...Neil Addington, 32, a Marine Corps machine gunner in World War II, promptly trained his sights on the National Guard and, by a well-aimed series of disclosures in the New Mexican, blew up a statewide scandal involving the highhanded misuse of thousands of dollars in state funds, compounded by unbelievably lax state auditing procedures. Last week, after a week's airing before a legislative committee, the Guard's Adjutant General Charles Gurdon Sage, 62, a veteran of Bataan.† Japanese prison camps and 38 years as a guardsman, resigned under fire. The Guard's shenanigans were...
Power-Mower Play. On his own investigation. Neil Addington, a stocky (5 ft. 7 in.), Kansas-born reporter whose close-to-the-skull haircuts have earned him the nickname "Bones," at first drew little sympathy and considerable skepticism from lawmakers or state officials. In eleven years as state adjutant general-under Republican and Democratic governors-respected General Sage, an old newspaperman himself (publisher of the weekly Deming Graphic), had fortified his post by appointing relatives of many potent political figures to his staff. When Addington started digging into the operations of Sage's elite, several of his key informants...