Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside world the corporation president is the embodiment of sleek self-assurance, but to those who know him best he is a hagridden worrier with an "almost masochistic capacity for self-criticism." So says Lyle M. Spencer, himself a president (of Science Research Associates) and personnel expert, in a report in the current Harvard Business Review on the results of a three-year quiz of the more than 950 members of the Young Presidents Club...
Critics treated the group kindly all along the way, even in choir-heavy England, although many felt that such a large chorus should devote itself to large important works instead of the motley programs it sings. For these, Conductor J. Spencer Cornwall has his answer ready Our singing is for people, not for critics " Adds Assistant Conductor Richard Condie: "Some of the things we do are certainly not great music, but we do them because there is something behind the music. If our sole purpose were to be a great musical organization there would not be so many older people...
...Lester Martin, graduated from Yale ('23), got his first job in a Nevada mine, leaving after a year to work for Standard Oil (N.J.). He entered textiles in 1928 with Associated Dry Goods, moved to Bates in 1937, will serve as deputy to Burlington's board chairman, Spencer Love...
...glory-venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar as Big Ben. Next moment, or so it seemed, the dauntless old figure had vanished, and Britain had the feeling that John Bull himself was gone. At 4:25 p.m., in the quiet of an April afternoon, 80-year-old Sir Winston Spencer Churchill put on his black frock coat and drove off to see the Queen...
...dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier Guards), good military record (wounded three times in World War I), good marriage (the second daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire...