Word: osborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking over Goad's old duties will be Sherrod E. Skinner, 62, who was elected an executive vice president. Skinner has been vice president of G.M.'s accessory group since 1951. Also promoted to executive vice president was Cyrus R. Osborn, 62, vice president of the engine group since 1950. In his new post, Osborn will boss G.M.'s engine divisions, the household appliance and electro-motive groups, and the overseas and Canadian units...
...command its great new boat, the Navy has picked one of its best: Commander James Butler Osborn, 41, a Missouri-born, Annapolis-trained ('41) package of controlled power, who has been on hand 18 hours a day since March rushing work on George Washington. A World War II submariner (six combat patrols), Osborn spent his postwar years earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in three years at Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College...
Asked last week if he ever failed an assignment, Osborn seemed almost surprised, snapped: "Negative." And as George Washington stood poised for launching, it was clear that her skipper planned affirmative results in one of the most important jobs in the age of the atom...
...verbal effects are easier to describe and reproduce, but his skill at drawing is equally impressive--though more influenced by Robert Osborn than his dialogue and narration are by anybody I can think of. A picture of Passionella in her swimming pool, with a vast expanse of bosom floating before her, says more than a thousand "Will you mammary me" jokes about America's breast-fixation. Mr. Feiffer uses a flexible combination of text and pictures thoroughly intermixed; nobody's else is quite like it, and no quotations simply of words will get across its effect. Even people...
...OSBORN Bloomfield Hills, Mich...