Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pushed Gillette's sales from $16 million in 1938 to more than $200 million in 1956. A Boston lawyer Harvard Law School). Gilbert joined Gillette as treasurer in 1948. became president in 1956. Into Gilbert's job goes Boone Gross. 53, a Texas-born West Pointer ('26) who heads Gillette's safety-razor division. As chief executive officer, Gilbert will face a $6,000,000 sales slide caused in part by the short, straight Italian haircut, which has cut sharply into the sales of Gillette's Toni home permanents. Says Gilbert of the style...
...tickets sold for a Pacific Opera performance of Pagliacci, Tenor Ernest Lawrence phoned to say he was too sick to sing Canio. Two hours before curtain time, Director Arturo Casiglia reached Bocce Tenor Arthur Peters, zipped him into the costume of Leoncavallo's tragic clown, gave him a pointer or two on acting and propelled him onstage. He did fine, got warm critical notices...
Ingrained Misgivings. Seventeen days before the Army's satellite shoot, West Pointer Yates grinned expansively at wary newsmen before outlining the missile beat's first set of ground rules. In future, said he, Cape Canaveral correspondents would 1) be briefed off the record each week before scheduled missile firings, 2) get a detailed on-record fill-in on the outcome of some major shoots, 3) cover the tests from vantage points (7,900 ft. from the launching pads) that had previously been off limits to the press. In return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would...
From West Pointer Clay, 60, now board chairman of Continental Can Co., came an old soldier's plea for a more unified military command, rooted in a strong Defense Secretary and bolstered by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with sole military authority for decisions. Today's Joint Chiefs setup, said Clay, is "just another committee." Clay also added his vote to those (notably members of the Rockefeller Report panel) who have been demanding a setup whereby senior officers would belong to the same service, wear the same uniform and stand above interservice rivalries...
Prodded by Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, on whether he thought the 1959 military budget was big enough, Air Force General Twining growled an answer that Symington should have known. Once the budget is firmly set by the executive department of the Government, said West Pointer Twining, the committee "should not bring [military men] back again and say, 'Is this still adequate?' . . . In the military terminology, a commander makes a decision, and if everybody starts bucking it, it is just no good, you have no military...