Word: chester
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Postum was founded in 1895 by a health-food fan named Charles William Post, who invented Postum and Grape Nuts, one of the first cold cereals, built a thriving business in Battle Creek, Mich, before he died in 1914. Later, under President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who married Post's daughter Marjorie), the company diversified so fast by buying up other companies that the big shopping bag was renamed General Foods. As it continued to grow under Austin Igleheart, who had joined Postum in 1926 when it purchased his family-run company (Swans Down cake flour...
...Davis Co., was made head of sales at 22. His next stop was the Madison Avenue advertising agency of George Batten Co., where he worked on the Sanka account, pulled his weight alongside such later advertising stars as Ted Bates, William Benton (former Senator from Connecticut) and Chester Bowles. When Batten was sold to the agency that later became Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Mortimer went over to Postum, got a job as an assistant ad manager for Sanka and Calumet. Not long after, he confided to a friend: "I want to spend the rest of my life here. And some...
...Chester J. Boulris '60, received the Barrett Wendall Bat, awarded to the best offensive player on the baseball team, at the squad's post-season banquet last night at the Varsity Club. The trophy is given annually to the member of the varsity who has the most total hits, runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, sacrifices, and bases on balls...
...Chester J. Boulris '60 was presented the Frederick Crocker Award--unofficially the football team's most valuable player award--at the annual team dinner held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. The trophy is given to the letterman who, in the opinion of his teammates, "possesses initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness...
...cancer in rats, and there was no evidence that it would produce cancer in humans. And anyway, by the standards used on the rats, a human would have to stuff down about 15,000 lbs. of cranberries a day over the years to get the same symptoms. Said Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station: he would as soon eat a helping of tainted cranberries as smoke a cigarette...