Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trevor Gardner, longtime Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
...lived much the same kind of life they have. Born in the "Brickbottom" section just across the Cambridge-Somerville line in 1914, he moved to Squires Court in East Cambridge when he was three years old. He went to a Cambridge grammar school, but at fourteen was forced to quit school and find a job when his father died. Although he attended evening high school for a while, he never graduated. "I've done a lot of reading on my own," Vellucci adds, however, "and I've taken correspondence courses on accounting." At present he holds...
Prophet & Savior. Charlie Merrill did not start out to bring Main Street to Wall Street. The son of a Florida country doctor, he spent two years at Amherst College, quit to work for Eastman, Dillon & Co. Later he set up his own firm, then teamed up with Edmund C. Lynch. As an underwriter and investment banker, Merrill Lynch helped set up such big chain-store operations as S.S. Kresge, Grand Union and Safeway Stores. As brokers, Merrill Lynch & Co. also built up a sizable business during the roaring...
...Sylphides. In Winnipeg, after he quit as ballet master of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet because a danseuse was given too much authority, Nenad Lhotka got a job in the city's railway sheds, observed that lifting freight is "nothing compared to some of those ballerinas...
Much of the credit for Ford's change belongs to one of the new team's least-known members: natty, quiet-spoken Lew Crusoe, 61, production boss. Minnesota-born Crusoe, a onetime forester, rose to become Fisher Body controller for General Motors, quit in 1945 to raise Herefords. A few months later a call from Bendix Aviation's Ernest Breech lured him back from cows to horsepower; when Breech went to fast-slipping Ford the next year, along went Crusoe. Accounting Expert Crusoe supervised the day-today unraveling of the tangled finances left by old Henry, after...