Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edwin H. Walker, 47, big (6 ft. 4 in.), hearty president and general manager of McKinnon Industries Ltd., General Motors' parts-manufacturing subsidiary at Saint Catharines. Ont., was made president of General Motors of Canada, Ltd., succeeding William A. Wecker, retiring at 64. Canadian-born. Walker went to work at McKinnon in 1929, climbed steadily through the ranks (inspector, foreman, superintendent, assistant to general manager) to the top of McKinnon in 1953. He arrived just in time to oversee construction of McKinnon's automated V-8 auto-engine plant. To replace Walker at McKinnon, G.M. picked another...
...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
...your article on St. Bernardino, why didn't you consider the title "Saint in the Grey Flannel Habit...
...film studio near London, 526 years after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, realism-bound Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger sought to restage the event, almost succeeded. Shooting the burning scene for his movie version of Shaw's Saint Joan, Preminger watched happily as his fledgling star, young (18) Iowa-born Jean Seberg, mounted a pile of faggots and was duly chained to the stake. Soldiers lighted the faggots and Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden...
...also controlled by Getty, he has embarked on a $250 million program to build supertankers to carry Getty Co. oil from the Neutral Zone to its major markets in Western Europe, Japan and the U.S. Last weekend the 53,000-ton S.S. Tidewater slipped down the ways at Saint-Nazaire, France. It was the ninth new tanker for Tidewater since 1954 and the second in the past month. Sixteen more are on order at cut-rate French and Japanese shipyards. The total tonnage for all 25 will be 1,234,530 d.w.t. For his flagship, Getty is now dickering...