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...reason for the shifting attitude in fiction is that the new generation of business authors has often had firsthand business experience. Louis Auchincloss' The Great World and Timothy Colt, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents, W. H. Prosser's Nine to Five, Lawrence Schoonover's The Quick Brown Fox, are all business novels by authors who at one time or another have been in business themselves. Thus in Executive Suite, Author Cameron Hawley, a longtime executive of Armstrong Cork Co., can expertly detail for his readers the struggle to find a new president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -BUSINESSMEN IN FICTION--: New Novels Reflect New Understanding | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...years of age and the son of an Irish mother. Cried Stokowski: "No, no, no, no. That's not true. I was born in 1887 . . . That's a damned lie. My mother was not Irish. This is terrible-where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia of Music. Stokowski took himself off in high dudgeon, refused to clarify for reporters either his birth date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...seemingly tireless Chalmers was soon seeing 60 patients a day in his clinic and also doing a daily stint of surgery at the hospital in Prosser, 15 miles away. He started a medical program at Benton City's two schools, and somehow, between his office hours and his daily commuting, found time to make a good number of house calls. A soft-spoken but decisive man who had just finished five years of public-health work in Alaska, Chalmers made friends quickly. Said one businessman: "He's that rare type who worries more about his patients than about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Keep the Doctor | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Robert Fletcher Rogers Prizes for the best papers presented before the Mathematical Club to Ariel Zemach '51 and Reese Trego Prosser 1G, each one half the income from the fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Splurge of Prizes Is Released | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

After John Steinhart, Billy Graham, and Bob Stroud had fallen before Army's medley relay powerhouse, Bob Berke swam the fastest 220 yards of his career 2:15.3 to beat Cadets Jack Craigie and Harvey Prosser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smyly Stars as Army Hands Swimmers First Loss, 43-32 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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