Word: yaleman
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Along the littered streets of Manhattan's East Harlem, past dingy doorways and under rusting fire escapes strolled a young Yaleman and a Boston University graduate student, wearing baggy old trousers and work shirt. As they passed, youngsters greeted them by name or tugged their arms. Lounging tenement dwellers nodded brusquely in their direction. In a neighborhood traditionally hostile to strangers, that signified acceptance. It was also a victory for what the students stood for: the church...
...Stevens, 56, who disposed of his interest in J. P. Stevens & Co. before he took office as Secretary of the Army, was re-elected its president two weeks after leaving the Pentagon. He replaces Joseph H. Sutherland, who was moved up to the newly created post of vice chairman. Yaleman Stevens came into the family textile business as a salesman, became president by the time he was 30, built the company into the nation's No. 2 textile manufacturer, earned a reputation as an intelligent, progressive businessman. As a Cabinet officer, he became familiar to U.S. television audiences...
...Robert D. Howse, 46, who joined Waterman Pen Co., Inc. in May 1952 as executive vice president, moved up to the presidency last week. Yaleman Howse ('30) began his business career at Agfa-Ansco, later joined the Chicago management-engineering firm of Melvin J. Evans Co. In 1940 he became president of Argus, Inc., built up the company's sales from $1,000,000 to $10 million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point...
...onetime (1931-38) Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, Lawyer Robb, 46, was hired by the AEC in February to handle the Oppenheimer case. A Yaleman ('28), Robb is associated with the Washington law firm of Bingham, Collins, Porter and Kistler, is a vice president of the District of Columbia Bar Association...
...Richard Weil Jr., 46, onetime president of Macy's Manhattan store (world's largest) and advocate of "practical thinking" and "trained intuition" for solving management problems, was appointed chairman of the new five-man operating committee for Schenley Industries, Inc. (biggest U.S. distillery). Yaleman Weil, grandson of one of Macy's founders, resigned from Macy's after a year of falling profits and a money-losing price war on fair-trade merchandise. Since then he has been serving as unpaid president of the National Association for Mental Health...