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Whitefield Cottage, Great Missenden, Bucks, is an odd address for Patricia Neal to have settled into, for she was born in a mining camp in Packard, Ky., where her father was local transport manager for the South Coal & Coke Co. After two years at Northwestern, she naively headed for New York to become a star of Broadway plays-and became one in less than a year, winning a Tony award and the New York Drama Critics best-actress award for her performance in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest...
...later. U.S. Steel limits its options to 300 top managers, and many other large companies give options only to vice presidents or chief executives. But General Electric spreads its 4,000,000 optioned shares among 1,555 employees, Westinghouse grants them to plant managers and research assistants, and Hewlett-Packard has even reserved some stock options for top salesmen as well as for scientists who make important discoveries...
Also, J. Lawrence Burkholder, professor of Church; Gordon D. Kaufman, professor of Theology; Richard R. Nlebubr '47, professor of Theology; Frederick C. Packard '20. professor of Public Speaking; and Charles P. Price '41, University Preacher...
...late 1940s, Dartmouth thought of David Lambuth as a campus character, the compleat English professor in his white suit and black cape, his white beard and black beret, driving his white Packard as absentmindedly as he graded green freshmen. Older generations knew better. Professor Lambuth had a passion for precision in writing; he abhorred the vague and verbose, the prolix and pompous. And in 1923, when his beard was black and his energy abundant, Lambuth compiled The Golden Book on Writing, a 50-page bible that sounded positively Mosaical...
Since the first auto was produced in 1893, some 1,850 U.S. auto firms have gone out of business, two of them (Packard and Kaiser) since World War II. Studebaker's departure from fifth place leaves the U.S. with only four major auto producers. "We were being bled to death," said Studebaker Chairman Randolph Guthrie, a partner in the Wall Street law firm that Richard Nixon recently joined. Guthrie has his own explanation for why Studebaker flopped in one of history's best auto years. "The reason," he says, "is that everyone thought that Studebaker was going...