Word: prot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five hours later, two of the old man's protégés joined Rietta Wallenda in doing the high-wire act under the big top in San Juan. The crowd gave her a standing ovation. She bowed and smiled. Tears streamed down her cheeks...
There is no question, though, that Peter G. Peterson, 51, as chairman and president of the combined firm, will be calling the shots for nearly 1,800 employees. A protégé of Illinois Senator Charles Percy, Peterson succeeded Percy as chief of Bell & Howell in 1963, served in various capacities in the Nixon Administration (including Commerce Secretary), joined Lehman in 1973 and within months became chairman. The aristocratic John Mortimer Schiff, 73, now chairman of Kuhn Loeb, will become honorary chairman, and Harvey Krueger, 48, who is now president, will become chairman of the banking policy committee...
Last week the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that another of Chiang Ch'ing's protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...
...winning pattern of ABC, which separates responsibility for programming, sports and business operations among three men, rather than consolidating it in the hands of one man, as CBS had done in the past. Overseeing everyone will be Gene Jankowski, 43, the new president of the Broadcast Group and a protégé of CBS President John Backe. Robert Wuscome, 41, who had been network president, was boosted aside to become head of sports. James Rosenfield 57, a vice president for sales, was moved up to become top businessman. In the most important move, Robert Daly 40 who had handled...
Stanley's five Johns Hopkins protégés seem almost too dedicated to their calling. Spare-time reading tends toward math and science books, with a little science fiction thrown in for leavening. Favorite hobbies include, not surprisingly, chess and bridge. Stark and Camerer, however, seem drawn to nonscientific pastimes-Stark to softball and ragtime music on the trombone. Camerer to journalism. He has been writing stories about fashions and fishing for the Beachcomber, a free weekly published in Ocean City...