Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years before he died, Founder George H. Hartford began the odd A. & P. system by leaving each of his five children equal shares of the business in the form of the George H. Hartford Trust. As sole trustees, he appointed his sons George L., a reticent financial wizard who carefully tested A. & P. coffee every morning, and John A., a gregarious merchandising genius (TIME Cover, Nov. 13, 1950). John loved to boast to banker friends: "We had 100% stockholder attendance at our last annual meeting...
Died. George Ludlum Hartford, 92, chairman and financial wizard behind the growth of the A. & P. stores (for their future, see BUSINESS); of uremia; in Montclair, NJ. Inheriting the company in 1915 from their father, George Huntington Hartford, who had launched it with a small tea store on Manhattan's Vesey Street in 1859, George L. and brother John spread its power across the country, slashed prices by mass buying, produced their own products. "Mr. George," as he was known to company employees, anticipated the 1929 crash, signed store leases on a yearly basis only...
Born. To Billy Pearson, 37, pint-sized jockey, TV quiz wizard (The $64,000 Question), passionate art collector, and Queta Pearson, 38: a daughter, their first child; in San Diego. Name: Maria Christina. Weight...
...altitude bailout has almost always meant quick death for the aircraft pilot. Last week the Navy successfully tested a British low-altitude ejection seat that may become the American military pilot's best friend. See SCIENCE, "Positively Wizard...
...still. Then he bounced up and started to shake hands with the crowd of Navymen that sprinted up to him. ''You feel a terrific crash on your rump, and the next thing, you are out on the end of your chute,'' gasped Hughes. "I feel wizard, though. Positively wizard...