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...Ethan Allen were gratifying to thousands of Americans who made them possible. Few could take such personal satisfaction as a trimly handsome man who makes his contribution to U.S. defense from a paneled penthouse office overlooking Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Calif. As president of the Northrop Corp., Thomas Victor Jones, 41, heads the crackerjack industrial team that makes the Q-ball, the Datico, the Polaris star-tracker-and the bodies, brains, eyes and nervous systems of scores of other devices to carry men, or the alert instruments of men, off the earth. Many of its competitors are bigger than...
...Ultimate Sophistication. It makes extraordinary demands upon management. "We have experienced a tremendous explosion of technology," says Northrop's Tom Jones, "and the country's need now is to perfect the management skills to handle it." The job of the managers is to convert the demands of the generals and the discoveries of the scientists into working hardware-and none has done it better than Tom Jones himself. In the eyes of the Pentagon, Jones is the bright young star of the aerospace industry...
...president of General Dynamics Corp.'s big, highflying (Atlas missile, B58 bomber, Convair commercial jets) Convair division because of "irreconcilable differences in management philosophy." Brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, Jack Naish gave up a profitable investment counseling firm in 1941 to become an aircraft riveter at Northrop, worked up to works manager in five years. In 1949 he joined Convair, shot up to president in 1958. He liked to run his billion-dollar division his own way. Since Frank Pace Jr. took over as General Dynamics chairman, more and more of Convair's flight orders have been...
Married. Quentin Northrop Burdick, 52, North Dakota's first Democratic Congressman, recent winner of the state's special U.S. senatorial election (TIME, July 11); and Jocelyn Birch Peterson, 38, a Republican; both for the second time; in Fargo...
...Martin from 62½ to 38¼, Douglas from 59¼ to 46, North American from 52⅝ to' 37¼, Grumman from 30¼ to 24⅜. In the past fortnight, nine aircraft stocks scraped new 1959 lows. Among them: McDonnell, Bell, Temco, Northrop, United Aircraft...