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This week the Chicago management-engineering firm of John A. Patton Inc. released a survey of 4,000 wives of the nation's top executives-the women who are supposed to set the pattern. The results offer some hard facts to challenge the proposition that executive wives must also marry the corporation. Sixty percent of the wives polled advised the young executive wife to remain aloof from corporate contacts, attend only necessary social functions, such as conventions; even the 40% who disagreed recommended only "a middle ground" of sociability. Said Mrs. Margaret Barry, wife of a vice president...
...Helene Costello, 53. onetime brunette silent-film star (Good Time Charley, Lights of New York), sister of the late John Barrymore's blonde third wife, Cinemactress Dolores Costello, and daughter of oldtime Broadway and Hollywood idol Maurice Costello; of pneumonia, five days after she was committed to the Patton State Hospital for narcotics addiction (destitute and ailing, she had spent much of her time since 1938 in a tuberculosis sanatorium and an actors' home); in Norwalk, Calif...
...Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton), helped oversubscribe Southern California's Olympic contributions...
...most of the theaters where his meteorologists were sweating out their decisions. Some of the generals and admirals, he noted, alternated between cursing the weathermen and demanding forecasting accuracy that was impossible to supply. Many of their bitterest complaints were not about the forecasting but about the weather. General Patton, despairing of meteorology, once turned to his chaplain: "Goddam it," he shouted, "get me some good weather...
...National Bank in Dallas, defines the new conservatism as "a philosophy of social welfare, something the modern businessman's forerunner would have scoffed at." Less than 20 years ago. Republic Steel strikebreakers were battling union workers on the streets of Massillon, Ohio. Now. says Republic President Thomas F. Patton, management has learned that the welfare of its employees "is just as important to the success of the company as making products and selling...