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...General Time Corp. picked Executive Vice President (since 1948) Donald J. Hawthorne, 52, to succeed retiring President Arnold J. Wilson, 66, who will remain a director. A 1923 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Hawthorne joined General Time in 1925, became general manager of the Westclox Division and a vice president...
...General Time Instruments Corp. (bet! Thomas, Big Ben, Westclox) reported ,000 as against $653,000 in the first half...
...German immigrant with a Heidelberg education who made good with a zinc smelter in La Salle, Ill. He had an idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing...
Curiously, President Matthiessen inherited his interest in time not from his father, who was one of the founders and the first president of Corn Products Refining Co., but from his mother, who was a daughter of the Westclox founder and married a relative of the same name. Now 46, tall, rangy, athletic, President Matthiessen lives at Irvington-on-Hudson outside Manhattan. In announcing a smart increase in GTI's first quarter earnings ($310,000 against $135,000), President Matthiessen cautiously warned that part of the "abnormal increase" was caused by the introduction of several new models...
...whitemx metal Westclox alarm clock, octagon shaped...