Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briggs, gregarious treasurer of Ford Motor Co., will retire Jan. 31 on his 65th birthday after 42 years with the company, be replaced by publicity-shy J. Edward Lundy, former member of the Princeton economics faculty who joined Ford in 1946 after a World War II stint as financial analyst for the Air Force. Doc Briggs got his nickname by starting as a first-aid man at Ford's Chicago branch assembly plant, rapidly earned a reputation as a financial wizard, traveled widely for Ford in Europe and the Middle East, returned to Dearborn in 1929 to begin...
Driven from research by the skepticism of his German colleagues, Dr. Forssmann took up surgery. He was captured during the war. Since his release from an Allied P.O.W. camp in 1945, and a stint as a lumberjack, he has been supporting his wife and six children as a general practitioner in the little town of Bad Kreuznach in Rhine province. Last week he learned that Stockholm's Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute, only 27 years behind the times, had named him, together with Richards and Cournand, to share the 1956 Nobel Prize for medicine ($38,633). Said the German country...
...Western Electric, succeeding Frederick R. Kappel, American Telephone & Telegraph's new president (TIME, Oct. 1). Chicago-born Goetze joined Western Electric in 1917 as a draftsman, took night courses in electrical engineering. By 1952 he moved up to vice president of Western Electric, after a three-year stint as vice president with the Chesapeake & Potomac and the Ohio Bell Telephone companies. CJ Orville Simpson Carpenter, 57, was elected president of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., one of the biggest U.S. natural-gas pipeline companies (gross annual revenue: $169,027,558). A certified public accountant and the former Texas State...
...Manulis' Playhouse 90, the chain's most ambitious drama project, offers adaptations of Charley's Aunt, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J. P. Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde, and Shirley Booth in The Perle Mesta Story. Jack Benny returns this month from a successful BBC stint loaded with film shot in Europe (including a Paris show with Benny and Maurice Chevalier). In November the U.S. Air Force joins forces with CBS Public Affairs in a 26-part series called Air Power, "the story of flight and its impact on the 20th century." U.S. Steel will bring...
...astute reader will be aware that this is a book in which the preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses. By the time he marries Helen, Henry...