Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese management, like Theory Z, were the rage. Then many executives became intrigued with The One Minute Manager, a piece of pop psychology claiming that employees could be spurred to greater productivity by "one-minute praisings" and "one-minute reprimands." Written by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson, Manager has been on the nonfiction bestseller list for 54 weeks, and now ranks...
...Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting Hollywood. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out one evening to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein and a party of scientists to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...Anderson Jardine awaiting the greatest moment in his life. Hollow-eyed, the Duke of Windsor stepped in a moment later, accompanied by his elegantly groomed best man, Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe. While Organist Marcel Dupre played the march from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, entered (Bessie) Wallis Warfield (Spencer) (Simpson) on the arm of the faithful Herman Rogers. She wore a dress that most U. S. department stores were soon to feature: soft blue crepe with a tight, buttoned bodice, a halo-shaped hat of the same color. At her throat was a tremendous diamond-&-sapphire brooch. Mrs. Warfield...
Senior Co-Captain Spencer Brog won the men's A division title. Although he had some difficulty in his semifinal match with New York teaching pro Bob Dewey, Brog called this year's competition a "relatively final tournament...
...during the 1970s. In fact, such patterns are apt to be tempered, changed in intensity or direction. Extrapolating from the 1970 census, the Government predicted a 1980 U.S. population of 221 million; that turned out to be short of the actual number by 5 million people. Explains Gregory Spencer of the Census Bureau: "No one who leaves New York has to sign out. No one who goes to Florida has to check with us." The bureau uses figures for school enrollment, federal transfer payments and driver-license registrations, among other measures, in assembling its forecasts. The Census Bureau demographer...