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Born in San Francisco, Bob McNamara was a rare sophomore Phi Beta Kappa scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He took a master's degree at Harvard Business School, then after a stint at Price, Waterhouse, went back to Harvard as an assistant professor for three years until the war. Though McNamara is perhaps the prize Whiz Kid, all six of the original group still with Ford have worked their way up to key executive posts. FORD'S new president is usually at his desk by 7:30 a.m., when most of his staff is just...
When the results of this exhaustive reporting were finally piled on Writer McPhee's desk last week, he faced his own formidable composing task: a 61-hour, mostly sleepless writing stint. For McPhee-unlike his subjects- there could be no trial runs in Toronto or Boston. He was opening in New York, and Senior Editor Grunwald was a tough critic...
Though Archibald MacLeish, currently Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, considers himself primarily a poet, he has on several occasions turned to the dramatic medium. In the years just before MacLeish came to Cambridge for a year's stint (1938-39) as Curator of the Nieman Collection, he wrote three verse plays especially for radio: Panic (1935), Fall of the City (1936), and Air Raid...
...three disabilities that pelvis-twirling Elvis Presley might most fear are a sore throat, a dislocated hip, or an injury to his guitar-strumming paw. During his recent Army draftee stint he was briefly silenced by tonsillitis. Last week, during a touch-football game in home-town Memphis, Elvis dived at the ball carrier, broke the little finger of his string-zinging hand. His hips, however, are still swinging...
Apparently convinced that the French army will keep on trying to make a soldier of Yves Saint-Laurent for his full 27-month stint as a draftee, the House of Dior last week named his replacement as the world's most publicized fashion designer: Marc Bohan, 34, in charge of Dior's successful London operation in the past two years. In contrast to Saint-Laurent's extreme, erratic styles, Bohan-first married man and father ever to hold the lofty Dior post-is notable for designing clothes that consistently prove their wearers have bosoms and waists...