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...Clifford J. Backstrand, 52, moved in as president of the $112 million Armstrong Cork Co. when 65-year-old Henning Webb Prentis Jr. moved up to chairman of the board. Known as a "driver and organizer," Backstrand drove himself up the Armstrong ladder from student salesman in 1921 to first vice president in 1945, was largely responsible for boosting the company's war production from $500,000 in 1941 to $39 million...
With a Clifton Webb playing the lead and some bright scripters on the job, the picture might have turned into a devastating satire of radio's foolish age. Veteran Colman does well enough in his orotund English style, but the writers fail him almost completely. Basically, they miss the vital point-which Miracle on 34th Street caught so well-that the story's fantastic premise should be played out as if the impossible were really happening. Instead, the film has been pitched on a wobbly note of broad burlesque with overtones of self-conscious whimsy, e.g., the soap...
Jack of All Trades. Jones, born on a farm near Webb City, Mo., started at the bottom. At 21, he quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff...
...help with the drafting of the rules, Chairman William D. Mulholland, Jr. '50 announced the appointments of N. Conant Webb, Jr. '49, Richard W. Kimball '50, John R. W. Smail '51, and Sanford J. Langa '51. These four men will join the Council's Committee on Extra-Curricular Activities for the first time tomorrow afternoon...
Robert P. Hyde '51 of Belmont was elected president of Phillips Brooks House last night. John C. Pittinger '51 of Dunster House and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was chosen vice president. They succeed N. Conant Webb. Jr. '49 and Mark E. Gordon...