Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the 7½-year rule of Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, the U.S. Post Office Department has become a sort of latter-day Watch and Ward Society. As part of an all-out antismut crusade, Summerfield tried to ban Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails (TIME, June 22), succeeded only in helping that tired old novel to the top of the bestseller list. Last week Summerfield's men were wrestling with another lady, Francisco Goya's masterpiece, The Naked Maja...
JOHN ANDREW BARR, 51, handsome Hoosier, is the best proof in U.S. business that ugly ducklings do indeed turn into swans. As a vice president, secretary and legal counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. under depression-minded, penny-pinching Chairman Sewell Avery, Barr was as undistinguished as a duckling; his chief claim to fame was that he showed a rare ability to survive the purges and resignations that cost Ward's five presidents and 30 vice presidents in 23 years. Barr managed to stay by avoiding open conflict with Avery, kept quiet about things that he knew he could...
WHEN Barr took over, Ward's itself had an unpromising future. Fearing a crash, Avery had piled up a huge reserve of $327 million in cash and Government securities, but in every other way the company was sick. Says a Ward's executive: "Avery was actually liquidating the company, though he didn't realize it." Avery had hobbled the entire firm with his one man rule (he had to okay every expenditure over $100), and knocked employee morale to the bottom. Net sales dropped from $1.1 billion in 1950 to $999 million in 1954. Barr...
...Hunter, Robert L., Jr. B 20 Watts, H. Grady, Jr. B 21 Boone, Thomas H. B 22 Ullyot, James R. B 23 Adams, Myron J., Jr. B 25 Halaby, Theodore B 30 Halaby, Samuel A., Jr. B 31 Bamford, Gilbert B 32 Reed, Charles L., Jr. B 33 Ward, David B. B 34 Burke, Stephen S. B 34 Barthelmes, Richard B. G 35 Nelson, James A. B 41 Leamy, Charles D. B 42 MacIntyre, Bruce B. B 43 Shipman, John S. B 50 Watters, Edward A. C 52 McLaughlin, Thomas C. C 53 Christensen, Jon H. C 61 Swinford, William...
Origin of the police investigation is somewhat of a mystery. Marckini reported that the police have received "a number of complaints--some by letter and some by telephone." He specifically mentioned the Watch and Ward Society as a group interested in and aiding the investigation with a view towards possible presentation to the District Attorney. Dwight W. Strong, however, stated categorically that the organization, which he formally headed, has had nothing to do with the matter and is now defunct. Furthermore, Daniel J. Brennan, chief of the Cambridge police, said that as far as he knew there have been...