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Ramsey enjoys worldwide renown for his lack of small talk. When Ramsey was subwarden of Lincoln Theological College, recalls Canon Herbert Waddams of Canterbury Cathedral, he had occasion to receive a young man seeking admission to the seminary. Outside, the clock struck 2:45. Silence reigned: awed youth, shy priest. Presently the clock struck 3. At last Ramsey spoke. "I think you'll find Lincoln a rather quiet place," he said...
Detroit was a conservative place in the 1930s. All the auto companies, but mostly Ford, gained a sorry renown for the driving tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...obeyed this admonition, never beginning a day without a song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
...author of renown and an ardent advocate of the improvement of American education...
...Parker Pen Co. of Janesville, Wis., is busy taking advantage of this worldwide renown with a lively spirit that belies its 75 years. It deliberately ignores national boundaries in its planning, now does two-thirds of its busi ness overseas in 156 nations. "We are a company of the world which happens to have its headquarters in the U.S.," says President Daniel Parker, 38, the grandson of Founder George Parker...