Word: purkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cincinnati's fate lies with Don Newcombe who should have forgotten about the '56 world series by now. If Newk can come back and head an otherwise average pitching staff of Brooks Lawrence, Joe Nuxhall, Bob Purkey, and rookie Jim O'Toole, the Reds could be very hard to beat. Their infield of Frank Robinson on first (where his fielding is still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank...
...other game yesterday, Frank Robinson's two-run homer and Bob Purkey's six-hit pitching sparked Cincinnati to a 4-1 upset over pennant-hopeful Pittsburgh...
...avoid these pitfalls, some companies have adopted what is virtually a conference manager. Standard Oil Co. of California, for example, got worried about the problem about twelve years ago, and put Conference Organizer Lewis Purkey to work on it. Says Purkey: "It took me and my staff three weeks just to find out how many committees we had and what they were supposed to do. We found that we had about 200." Purkey set up stringent rules governing the forming of committees and running of conferences. Now every new committee must have a written outline stating its purposes before...