Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scorpion, all-weather, rocket-armed interceptor. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Collins started as a banker, was a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones as a Northrop subsidiary; and chairman of the Holga Metal Products Co. (steel filing cabinets) of Van Nuys, Calif. A Northrop director...
...toupee, always carries around a battered leather pipe box (full of $1 pipes) and a clipboard for recording his firecracker ideas. He calls each of his employees "vice president," likes to talk about his early years when he wrote glutinous radio shows for a fancy California cemetery. As a partner in John Guedel Productions (with M.C. Art Linkletter), Guedel has grown considerably in the industry since those days. For one thing, his programs are now much livelier; the biggest are Linkletter's People Are Funny and House Party, and Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life...
...business deal." To Murchison, a deal is right when both sides profit from it; that way, "they can do business together again." When he figures a deal is right, he will not quibble about terms. One time when Murchison was trading some life-insurance and oil properties with a partner named Toddie Lee Wynne, they were $498,000 apart on price. They flipped a coin for the difference. Wynne won. But Clint made a fat capital gain anyway...
Harvard's Haddon Tomes proved himself the outstanding individual in the tourney, however, by gaining straight set victories in the singles and doubles. His doubles partner was Mike Ward, who went three tough sets before losing his singles match...
Marbury, Coolidge, and Kane are all attorneys. Kane served as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy during the war. Lamont is a partner in J. P. Morgan and a former Overseer...