Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summa cum laude at Northwestern, Pete Peterson went into advertising as a market researcher, soon caught the eye of the research-happy McCann-Erickson agency. He was made a McCann vice president at 27, shortly after became right-hand man to McCann's President Marion Harper (who himself was named to the agency's top spot at 32). Distressed at reports that Bell & Howell was trying to lure Peterson away. Harper three years ago informed top McCann executives that Peterson was his chosen successor. But Peterson ignored the offer, jumped to Bell & Howell when the bait was sweetened...
...Northwestern $157,500,000 Stanford 100,000,000 New York...
...from Evanston, 111., where at 13 he was a professional movie critic. Odd as it seems, the Attila of West 44th Street was known in those days as Wally. A carpenter's son, he began college at De Paul, had to withdraw during the Depression (he finished later at Northwestern). Kerr supported himself for two years by staging, directing and writing shows "for anyone who'd give me $25?the Y.M.C.A., the American Legion, church groups, anyone." When Jean came for a Christmas visit a few years later, it was the first time he'd ever brought a girl home...
Born in Lima, Ohio, raised on am bitions to sing or teach, Phyllis met Sher wood in 1938 at northwestern Ohio's Bluff ton College, and for 16 years the Dillers drifted from occupation to occupation, mainly in California. He worked for everyone from the U.S. Navy to Sears. Roebuck, while she wrote news paper society columns, did merchandising work in radio. On the side, she ran the children's choir at the Alameda Presbyterian Church (she had the kids sing through Campbell soup cans, amplifying their voices considerably...
...last fall's mock election at the University of Michigan, Nixon defeated Kennedy, though Kennedy easily carried the state. At Indiana, Northwestern and Ohio State, Nixon...