Word: peete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...included the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, but nary a diplomat. I therefore nominate Robert Peet Skinner, a career Foreign Service great. As keen as mustard, Mr. Skinner at 92 is fighting for the return of an honest U.S. dollar...
...three hats. She is chairman of the Creative Plans Board, administrative director of the 300-man Creative Division, and takes a hand in the development of talent in the agency's training program. Even more important is a fourth hat, the one she wears as Mrs. Charles D. Peet of Bronxville, wife of a Manhattan lawyer, mother of a son, 22, a daughter, 12. She and her husband duck Manhattan nightlife, spend most of their spare time at home with their family. Does Mrs. Peet find conflict in two careers in the family? "I get disgusted," she says, "with...
Died. Richard Frazer Allen, 66, vice chairman and longtime (1919-22, 1932-45) official of the American Red Cross, Marshall Plan mission chief of Yugoslavia (1951-52), U.S. foreign-relief program administrator (1947-48), general manager of Manhattan's men's haberdashers Rogers Peet Co. (1923-31); after long illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...both good and both fast. Senior Jim Lopez, a hard-driving 167-pounder from Watertown, Mass., will open at left half, and sophomore Dennis McGill at right. McGill, from North Bergen, N.J., has been called by Olivar, "the greatest Yale runner since Levi Jackson." Sophomores Al Ward and Charlie Peet will be called upon for reserve duty...
Soap & Sports Cars. The utility industry continued its fast postwar growth. A.T. & T., which installed 400,000 new telephones in the quarter and handled more long-distance calls than ever before, netted $104 million, v. $89 million last year. Among the soapmakers, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's earnings slipped 21% to $2,400,000, while burgeoning Procter & Gamble (TIME, Oct. 5) racked up a gain of 13%, to $14 million...