Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week Nancy Alverson, 31, left her 2½-year-old daughter Lorraine in their Greenwich Village apartment while she went shopping. Back in "a few minutes," she found the child dead, apparently of suffocation, with her head swathed in the adhering layers of a plastic garment...
...week, caught the eye of benevolently despotic President Joseph McNabb, Percy's onetime Sunday school teacher. McNabb offered Percy his pick of jobs upon graduation, and Percy chose to take charge of B. & H.'s tiny defense production. Within months the U.S. went to war, and Percy at 21 was bossing B. & H.'s biggest endeavor. McNabb, who made all the company's decisions, placed Percy on the board at 23. After 35 months in the Navy (up from apprentice seaman to lieutenant), Percy became corporate secretary. When McNabb died in 1949, Percy was elected president...
Stock Control. Hoping to avoid a proxy fight, Evans and Landa persuaded Gurdon Wattles, chairman of Electric Auto-Lite Co. and a Crane director, to back them with 322,900 shares of Crane stock owned by Auto-Lite. They also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share...
Awards of $50 each for photography went to Robert B. Brown '59, Reverdy Johnson, Jr. '60, and George Terell '61. A $50 second prize for painting was given to Lionel B. Spiro...
Princeton's freshmen also took the measure of their Crimson opponents, by a decisive five-second margin. The Yardlings' 6:47.5 clocking was not enough against a smooth-stroking Tiger eight that went the distance in 6.42.8. For the third time of the afternoon, Yale followed in he wake of the main combatants, limping...