Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reportedly a supporter of Thomas A. Stalker '58 for the presidency of the club, Aisner quit the day after Stalker was defeated for the post by Norman William Smith, Jr. '58, president...
...Glen B. Miller, 62, moved up from vice president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., third largest U.S. chemical company in sales, to president, succeeding Fred J. Emmerich, who was made board chairman. Miller went to State University of Iowa as a chemistry student just before World War I, quit classes temporarily to work for Hercules Powder Co. in New Jersey, helping to develop a smokeless powder. Long hours of working with acid-burned hands convinced him that the front office was more to his liking. Back at college, he boned up on economics as well as chemistry, graduated...
After more than a century of isolation from the U.S. mainstream, as Rowan points out, the Midwest's 75,000 Indians (who got U.S. citizenship only 33 years ago) have been encouraged by the Federal Government in recent years to quit the "rural slums" of the reservations. Says Rowan: "Most of the younger generation sees that the arrow is broken, the tribe is dead." But, poorly educated, lacking technical skills and elementary economic judgment, they enter the white man's world with "handicaps that burden no other group of Americans...
Eagle Scout. A onetime eagle scout, Gerry Murphy was working for an air-taxi outfit in Miami a year ago, when he told friends that he had met an important man: Arturo Espaillat, now New York consul general for the Dominican Republic. Around the first of March Murphy quit his job, saying he had got a high-paying charter proposition. The records show that on March 5 he arranged to rent (for $800) a twin-engined Beechcraft, registered as N 68100, at the Linden, N.J. airport. At a field on nearby Staten Island, he had it fitted to carry extra...
Shark-Infested Explanation. After drinks, Murphy sometimes boasted that his passenger-patient was Galíndez. On Dec. 3, after he had quit his job and was packing to return to the U.S., he disappeared. Neither he nor Galíndez has since turned...