Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from first vice president to president of Manhattan's William Esty Co., 17th largest U.S. advertising agency (1959 billings: an estimated $75 million), succeeding James J. Houlahan, 52, who became chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Peace went to work for Esty in 1941 after a brief stint at Fordham, has been there since except for Army service during World War II. He was moved up to the presidency while still young because Chairman Houlahan feels that "the peak years of creativity for a president are between the late...
Died. Victor Seastrom (Sjoestroem), 80, Swedish actor and director, who crowned a lifetime's devotion to movies of power and art (including a Hollywood stint in the '203, where he directed He Who Gets Slapped, The Scarlet Letter) with his winsome portrayal of the memory-haunted old doctor in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries; after long illness; in Stockholm...