Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Academy in Los Angeles has felt the impact of the charming and intelligent Demara, who was a member of the faculty for two months. He was hired just last February to teach a section of the eighth grade. He used the name Jefferson B. Thome, and left transcripts from William and Mary in the office. In conversation he said that he had been educated in private schools in England, had been a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, a teacher and principal for 13 years in Massachusetts and for a year in Alaska...
...scouts, dropping their classmates' dossiers at doors never before darkened by a Harvard Business School man, returned with copious notes and lists of job possibilities that have produced 700 offers, many at salaries 10% to 20% higher than big firms would give. Student Association President William Schulz, 28, a West Pointer who got 50 offers, wound up starting his own small business (Homesmith Inc.-home repairs) in Palo Alto, Calif. "It was a reaction to the Organization Man idea," he says. So far, at least 30 others have taken small-business jobs, and Harvard officials, sensing a trend...
Victorian Creed. Thomson's entry into the big time marked the retirement of one of the grand old peers of British journalism-James Berry, Viscount Kemsley, 75, who, with his brother William (later Viscount Camrose), came out of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, at the turn of the century, launched Advertising World in 1901, began building a chain that eventually reached a maximum circulation of 24 million (1947). Once called "the greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," Kemsley nevertheless paid close attention to editorial matters, followed a Victorian creed: "I have no intention of competing for circulation by appealing...
Like Fellow Builders William (Levittown) Levitt and William (Hotel Zeckendorf) Zeckendorf, Norman Winston preserves his name in brick and mortar. Four U.S. communities are named Winston Park and four Winston schools have risen on land donated by Winston. These, and a philanthropic foundation, are his monuments; he has no children. Why does he not retire? Says Winston: "It's too late to retire...
...SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS (218 pp.) -Translafed by William Arrowsmith-University of Michigan...