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Thus Glenn Edward Swanson, a slim, nervous man with an autocratic air and computer-like mind, described how he got into the coil business in a Chicago loft 15 years ago. In its first year, his Standard Coil Products Co. barely broke even. Five years later, it was worth only $16,000. But by last week, Standard Coil was the biggest U.S. maker of television coils and tuners. On a gross of $24 million in the first nine months of 1950, the company netted $4,000,000, after provision for taxes...
Promise to Pay. Much of this rocketing growth was due to the booming television industry; Standard Coil supplies parts for 40% of all TV sets produced in the U.S. But even more was due to the resourceful financing and engineering brains of President Swanson, 43, who with two partners owns 75% of the company's stock. A onetime Indiana farm boy, Swanson married at 18, had to go to work instead of college. He moved from one Chicago radio manufacturer to another, studied electronics at night school. By the time he was 23, he was a top design engineer...
Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson's comeback as a half-mad oldtime movie star; with William Holden and Erich von Stroheim (TIME...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's Theatre, with Gloria Swanson and Melvyn Douglas...
Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson's comeback as a half-mad oldtime movie star; with William Holden and Erich von Stroheim (TIME...