Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 49, whose Phi Beta Kappa key failed to ward off the rude fisticuffs of husky Cinemug Tom Neal in their brawl over the fickle favors of Cineminx Barbara Payton three years ago, settled out of court with Lloyds of London, accepted $17,500 insurance for his clobbering. In reply to Tone's original $63,666,66 suit, Lloyds claimed, in effect, that he had displayed indiscreet valor by provoking Neal, then by sticking his hitherto unmarred face in the way of Big Tom's flying knuckles...
...London, Ont., North Carolina Auto Salesman Harvie Ward Jr., 29, made up for a day of poor putting with consistent and spectacular iron shots, beat his American Walker Cup teammate. Bill Campbell, 5 and 4, for the Canadian Amateur Golf Championship...
Montgomery Ward's terrible-tempered Chairman Sewell L. Avery has had plenty of practice severing high-level employees from his payroll, including 32 vice presidents since 1931 (TIME, May 6, 1940 et seq.). Last week it was Sewell A very that was axed-as president of Cadillac-Soo Lumber Co., of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Cadillac-Soo Lumber was formed in 1923 out of three small companies, one owned by Avery and his brother. In 1946 Avery became president of the closely held corporation (with annual sales of about...
...Montgomery Ward, things were still the same. During the week "resignations" were turned in by three appliance-division managers, all old company hands, and duly accepted by Sewell Avery...
...camera peered over their shoulders, they showed how to "hot wire" a car (i.e., bypass the ignition lock) to start the engine. Then they demonstrated another favorite gadget of "repo" men: an equalizer tube for quick inflation of tires in case delinquent owners have deliberately flattened tires to ward off repossession. The collection agents, legally entitled to repossess cars parked in public areas, explained that they sometimes ply their trade even when a car is on private property...