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¶ Clifford J. Backstrand, 52, moved in as president of the $112 million Armstrong Cork Co. when 65-year-old Henning Webb Prentis Jr. moved up to chairman of the board. Known as a "driver and organizer," Backstrand drove himself up the Armstrong ladder from student salesman in 1921 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: The Top Drawer | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Somewhere on the banks of the Muscatatuck River, in the mid-19th Century, lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music on the Muscatatuck | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

A few pre-Defense topics survived the regimental atmosphere. N. A. M.'s hard-working ex-president Henning Prentis Jr. attacked N. A. M.'s old bogey, "the juggernaut of collectivism." N. R. D. G. A. counsel Irving Fox discussed the Wagner Act, said retailers might soon have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sellers of Butter | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

This month, when the National Association of Manufacturers gathered for its annual Congress in Manhattan, its outgoing president, Henning W. Prentis Jr., of Armstrong Cork, bespoke the general uncertainty when he asked the Government to define the businessman's new role. A few at that Congress already understood that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1940, The First Year of War Economy | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Pink-cheeked, scholarly, hard-working President Henning W. Prentis Jr. (Armstrong Cork) expressed the uncertainty in his keynote speech. Pledging industry's support to the defense program, he granted that industry could produce more than it has "if we are, in the opinion of Government, faced with emergency war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: Puzzled N. A. M. | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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