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...half ago. Babcock's right-hand men are Executive Vice President William F. Wise, who came from Excello Corp. and Republic Products Corp.; manufacturing Vice President Carl H. Kindl, who came by way of National Cash Register and G.M.; and New York Shipbuilding's John Farrell Metten, a hardhanded, hard-driving production man who turned out $655,000,000 worth of ships for the U.S. Boss of AVCO's sales is Raymond C. Cosgrove, who joined AVCO when it bought the Crosley Corp...
...rugged, white-haired, modest John Farrell Metten, dean of U. S. naval designing engineers, New York Ship.'s big cut of the shipbuilding boom was most welcome. In 1935, after he became president, his firm lost an uncomfortable $1,415,373 on its 1933-34 contracts. Last year it earned $928,264. With luck, 1940 might set a record. From a Delaware farm, Jack Metten went to work repairing ships at Newport News when...
...Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting...
Back in London Mr. Savage, bereft of job and money, disappeared forever. Never much of a factor in his wife's accounts of their life, this good Britisher lost what remained of his identity when the former Maria Metten took to pronouncing their name as if it were French. In 1908 Chorus Master Giulio Setti offered her a place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when...
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