Word: stewart
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Deadlocked after 17 ballots and seven hours of vote swapping, a special convention of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago last week failed to elect a successor to the late Bishop George Craig Stewart, postponed the election to Oct. 25. Commented the Living Church, High-Church Episcopal weekly: "It is difficult for the Holy Spirit to exercise effective guidance in the choice of a bishop when the clergy play politics instead of listening for His voice...
Despite a sizable handicap of two minutes and 40 seconds, Gilbert H. Stewart '42 ran to victory in the University Handicap Cross Country meet yesterday afternoon for the second year in succession, with a time of 20 minutes and 53.8 seconds...
Converting so much talk into a film required virtual scrapping of the Behrman version. Scripters Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein proceeded to remodel Hero Gaylord Esterbrook (James Stewart) into a country bumpkin with an odd flair for bright comedy. His hesitant romance and marriage with Actress Linda Paige (Rosalind Russell) becomes a slapstick backstage burlesque containing the only fun in the film. From then on Epstein gets tangled with Behrman in a confusing hodgepodge of drawing-room wit heavily weighted with dramatic overtones...
Handsome, brusque James S. Knowlson, chairman and president of Stewart-Warner Corp. is a sensitive man. For weeks he listened to politicians and labor leaders yelp that big business was holding back defense by refusing to cooperate with the Government, asking huge profits. Last week he got sore, lashed out a snappy (17-paragraph, onepage) letter of explanation to his employes. Said he: "There has been a lot of bunk about industry. . . . If your friends ask you what your company has done so far, you can tell them this: Your company has bid (on a competitive basis) on ten millions...
...many industrialists, Stewart-Warner's experience with competitive bidding has no moral. The company had simply underestimated its production costs on a new product (ammunition parts). Many aircraft, steel and shipbuilding contracts are now let on a basis which prevents losses unless a company is stuck with undepreciated plants at the end of the war. Knowlson himself "wasn't trying to give the impression that we expected to continue to lose." But there will be others like Stewart-Warner, who will pay to learn their jobs...