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That evening, company foremen were guests at a champagne-confetti blowout at Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, heard a short pep talk: "You've done a damn good job, guys," said President Joseph P. Spang Jr., "but in the same breath I want to say we're still behind on our orders. We want to get that old man's face in every store in the world...
...machinery to put the safety into production. Since then the company has never lost any money, never failed to pay a dividend. But competition and the depression of the '30s sent the directors on a man hunt for someone to better the company's "disappointing" results. Spang was chosen...
...Bostonian and a graduate of Harvard, where he made freshman letters in football, and track, Joe Spang, now 54, got his start shaving hogs for Swift & Co. He was Swift's vice president in charge of sales when Gillette hired him away in 1938 at $45,000 a year (present salary...
...Jackson, Miss., a 30-year-old waitress named Diana Guance spent days considering a fascinating question-what would happen if she hit her boss spang in the face with a chocolate meringue pie? At last she let fly, got fired, was charged with assault. Said she: "It was soul-satisfying...
...Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the name of a very odd Scottish village-one that long ago miraculously vanished, but reappears for a single day every hundred years. Just as the village comes to life one 1946 spring morning, a pair of young American hunters stumble spang upon its 18th Century market place-and the season's most engaging fantasy gets underway...