Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Joseph Morgens, 46, will succeed Neil McElroy, 52, as president of Procter & Gamble when McElroy becomes Secretary of Defense Oct. 1. Mc-Elroy's longtime protégé, St. Louis-born Soapmaker Morgens graduated from Washington University ('31) and Harvard Business School ('33), first went to work as a $150-a-month store-to-store salesman for Procter & Gamble in Kansas City, trying to interest people in soap in a Depression year when many could barely buy food. He did so well that P. & G. sent him on a cross-country tour. After six months...
...Nominated, to succeed Charles Erwin Wilson as Secretary of Defense, Procter & Gamble President Neil Hosier McElroy of Cincinnati...
...Gaillard's maneuvers succeed in closing France's foreign trade gap, he still has the problem of France's inflation-tilted economy. Since his domestic austerity program calls for ending costly commodity subsidies, many prices-starting with the price of bread-are headed up. Steelmakers have announced plans to raise prices 4.5%, government employees are pressing for a 10% pay boost. Taking to the radio, Economist Gaillard called for more civic spirit and warned that "if labor and management insist" on such demands, "they will be defeating all our efforts. Our defeat will be theirs...
...room house near by. His first marriage to once-divorced Anneliese Bahr, daughter of a prominent manufacturer, ended after four years in 1941, when his father, who had opposed the marriage, threatened to disinherit him. The son by the marriage, Arndt, 19, is studying in Switzerland, is expected to succeed his father as head of Krupp (though Alfried can designate any Krupp he wishes). After his release from prison, Alfried married thrice-divorced Vera von Hossenfeldt, a longtime friend who had lived in the U.S. during the war. Vera described Alfried as "the only man I ever loved...
...National Book Award for The Field of Vision (TIME, Oct. 15), may be fed up with modest awards and cozy coteries of readers. In his eleventh novel, he seems to be aiming at a larger audience, possibly including those who read Playboy and Confidential. He may succeed, for he is an extraordinarily versatile writer. In The Works of Love, he sounded like Sherwood Anderson; The Huge Season rang with persistent echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this time he handles sex and violence in the manner of a more or less literate Mickey Spillane...