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...other game of the evening, Adams made up a half-time deficit of four points to down the Funsters, 43 to 33. Rod MacDougall of the Gold Coasters made 20 points for the evening's high score. Don Keller was top man for Dunster with nine...
Last week Ike got his industrial counterpart. To William Rogers ("Rod") Herod, a large, amiably impatient man of 52, president of International General Electric Co., Inc., went the post of Coordinator of Industrial Production of the twelve NATO nations. Herod would have to decide what defense item each NATO member could best produce, then get it produced so that the West's armies would have the largest possible flow of tanks, mess kits, T-shirts, drawn from twelve nations. It was a unique job. Generals had commanded international armies before; never before had there been a Herod investigating foreign...
...Rod Herod came to General Electric Co. in 1919 from Yale (after a short interlude in the Army) with a tool kit full of honors in mechanical engineering, an extrovert's drive. He asked such questions as: "What does a fellow have to do to become president of a company like G.E.?" In 1945, Herod partially answered his own question. He took over as head of G.E.'s far-reaching subsidiary which runs factories in half a dozen foreign countries (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Turkey, the Union of South Africa) and sells over $100 million worth of equipment...
...pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...
...sitting behind a small table and grinning pleasantly; opposite him, on a long bench, sat a group of men fingering their cloth bags and staring uncomfortably across the room. An empty jar rested on the table, and the short man occasionally looked up and tapped it with a glass rod...