Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After President Ralph S. Damon died last January, Trans World Airlines began to lose altitude. Without his firm and skilled hand, the net profit dropped 96.9% in the first nine months to only $170,000, despite an 11% rise in operating revenue. Last week T.W.A. Owner Howard Hughes finally found the man he hopes will pull T.W.A. out of its dive: Carter Lane Burgess, 39, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower...
...Billy the Kid Hummel hurled the lacquer thinner and match? No one seemed to care; it was enough that Hudson was dead. He had created so much hatred that Prisoner Ralph Bowman feared for his own life at the hands of other convicts because he had used a fire extinguisher in trying to save Jim Hudson...
...never been an Overseer, although he did serve on visiting committees. From his temporary office in Massachusetts Hall, however, he will be able to call on an impressive list of prominent alumni, including vice chairman Devereux C. Josephs '15, Thomas S. Lamont '21, John L. Loeb '24, Ralph Lowell '12, and David Rockefeller '36. "Somewhat reluctantly," White says, he will have to make a large number of speeches during the next few years...
...Four records with Bethlehem started her on her way, followed by two LP's for Atlantic. The first (1228) exhibits her peculiar dry but throaty tone in some distinctly modern arrangements. The second (Atlantic 1240) is almost exactly the opposite--slow melancholy songs with lush orchestrations by Ralph Burns. While the latter record may become the more popular, the dry upbeat quality of the former is Chris Connor's real contribution to modern jazz. Perhaps the best introduction to her varied gifts is in Bethlehem '56, which collects the best songs from her first three records...
...returns. More than ever, the businessman must rely on scientists and economists and be ready to gamble on their projections. Says Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard: "Too many people and facilities are at stake for management to be timid, cautious, slow, antiquated." General Electric Co. President Ralph Cordiner estimates that up to 90% of his time is spent on projects that will not come to fruition until after he has retired. The business leader, in the words of George S. Dively, president of Cleveland's Harris-Seybold Co., must have "an infinite viewpoint, a perpetuity concept...