Word: rinker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's meeting, C.E.E.B. also: ¶ Announced a significant commission on English, aimed at analyzing the gap between achievement in U.S. high schools and requirements in U.S. colleges. Headed by Floyd Rinker, English chairman at Newton (Mass.) High School, the new group is patterned on C.E.E.B.'s commission on mathematics...
...week G.E. learned to its horror of a case where things had gone too far. In a Mann Act case in a Manhattan courtroom, three call girls testified that at least three times last year one or another of them had given her all for G.E. products. Lewis E. Rinker and John A. Murray, both officials of G.E.'s supply company in Newark, N.J., admitted they paid the girls to entertain important customers, .all in the interests of good business. Said Rinker, at the time one of the supply company's Newark promotion men: "This is public relations...
During a three-day convention of G.E. dealers in Newark last July, said Rinker, he telephoned red-haired Nella Bogart, 32, who is on trial as the madam of a Manhattan vice ring. "I was requested by the sales manager," testified Rinker, "to ask Miss Bogart if she would come and bring a young lady with her for purposes of prostitution.'' When Nella and another girl, Pat D'Amico, 19, arrived, they registered at the hotel as mother and daughter, and got right to work. G.E.-Man Rinker picked up the tab for their suite-the customers...
Both Ad Manager Rinker and his boss, Sales Manager Murray, were summarily fired when the case broke. Fumed G.E.'s Garl Schlaick, general manager of the company's Hotpoint appliance sales division: "General Electric will not, now or ever, condone or tolerate such conduct." The 16 carloads? They have already been delivered and sold...
...that he could make as much as any beginning lawyer in town by singing and tooting a kazoo, he quit school and headed for Los Angeles to break into full-time show business. There, two years later, "Pops" Whiteman auditioned his act, and signed Bing and his partner Al Rinker into the big time...