Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will still be top man, the new job was created for Breech as a reward for the way he has built up the company and to take some of the heavy work load off his shoulders. When Breech first went to Ford in 1946, after a 13-year stint at G.M. and four more as president of Bendix Aviation Corp., Ford was losing $9,000,000 a month. Largely as a result of his efforts, Ford's share of the auto market jumped to 30%, and profits soared. Breech's old job of executive vice president has been...
...moved up to chairman. Bean's grandfather founded the firm in 1892. and his father, Francis A. Bean, is retiring as chairman. The new president is an honor graduate of Minnesota's Carleton College ('31), and Rhodes scholar. He joined International in 1937, had a wartime stint at OPA and in Army Intelligence. He was made executive vice president in 1944 and has concentrated on modernizing the mills...
...Writer Rod Serling is another of TV's homegrown dramatists. An ex-paratrooper and amateur boxer, Serling had corporative experience only in a stint with Crosley Corp. in a low-echelon job After World War II, Serling wrote his own local dramatic show for Cincinnati's station WKRC-TV. Last year, after selling 20-odd scripts to Kraft, Studio One, Danger and Lux Video Theater, he moved to Connecticut where he is now working on a drama for the U.S. Steel Hour. Says Serling: "I'm one of the few TV writers who doesn't hope...
...McCoy, who resigned. A graduate of Columbia ('28) and Fordham Law School ('31), Finnegan helped pay his way through school by writing a question-and-answer column for investors in the Wall Street Journal and working on Brooklyn piers as a cargo checker. After a three-year stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, he joined a private law firm, and in 1948 hung out his own shingle. As background for his new $16,000-a-year post, Republican Joe Finnegan has done an impressive amount of arbitration and mediation work, approved by both labor and management...
...match and more when septuagenarian Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian McPartland, the old man conceded gracefully...