Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quaker Oats Co., to be Under Secretary of State in charge of administration. Alabama-born, a Princeton graduate (class of '22), Lourie began as a statistics clerk at Quaker Oats; by 1947 he was company president. In his college days an All-America quarterback, he is still trim and something of an athlete, playing a lot of squash rackets and some golf (average score: low 90s). A crack administrator, friendly and not stuffy, he gets results by encouraging rather than nagging...
Torpedo on the Track. Savings in fuel and grease meant bonuses, and engineers were constantly chancing runs on nearly greaseless bearings. Keeping the creaky engines in trim meant long hours of extra work for the drivers, but a breakdown was never blamed on faulty equipment. It was always labeled negligence or sabotage. Fearful of punishment and goaded by high wages (up to 1,250 forints-about $100-a month), the engineers did what they could, but accidents were frequent, timetables seldom kept. Engineers who complained, disappeared...
...full professor; in 1948 he was director of the university's European Institute, in 1949 was appointed provost and later vice president. He also found time to serve on the U.S. delegation at Dumbarton Oaks and to help set up the U.N. Security Council in San Francisco. A trim, vigorous scholar, Dr. Kirk has already demonstrated his ability to manage the complicated affairs of the university. There will be little new to him about his new job except the title, the salary (a reported $30,000 a year) and use of the stately old president's mansion that...
...Revolution the royal residences at Choisy-le-Roi were wrecked. For a time, a locksmith occupied the site of the Petit Château; later a tile factory was built on the grounds. No one dreamed that so much as two stones of the old building, with its rich trim and fine, high windows, were left standing...
Double-Threat Man.Unquestionably, the fizz in Miller High Life is Fred Miller. A tall (6 ft.), lean, handsome man who was once an All-America tackle and football captain at Notre Dame, Miller keeps his muscles trim at handball and tennis, hunts and fishes with the oldest of his eight children, pilots his own Grumman Widgeon amphibian around the U.S. Besides running the brewery, Miller has energy left to run scores of outside activities. He is president of the Milwaukee Brewers Association, runs public relations for the U.S. Brewers Foundation, is a director of the Milwaukee County Society for Mental...