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...Ferris Business College at Big Rapids in 1914 and hustled to Flint to start in as a bookkeeper for G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division. Within a year, he was AC's comptroller, the youngest executive (at 21) in the industry. He got a reputation as a comer who could "pitch, catch and cover first base at the same time." He learned finance, production and design, showed an aggressive flair for sales. At 35, he was named AC's president...
...make her way in movie bit parts and radio soap operas. Her assets -a trim, 5-ft.-5-in. figure, a coldly sexy manner and a shrewd if untutored brain -made her popular at parties. At one of them she met Colonel Juan Perón, then a comer in the Ministry of War. That very night they slipped off to a seaside resort; soon they were occupying next-door apartments...
...warm Sunday afternoon this week, word buzzed through the crowded stands at the Dayton, Ohio speedway that hard-driving Gordon Reid, 29, was a man to watch. "Flash" Reid was rated as a comer and was scheduled to drive in the Memorial Day race at Indianapolis. Fourteen thousand spectators were watching as Reid, gaining steadily, roared into third place in Dayton's ten-lap event. So, tensely, was Charlie Engle, the builder of Reid's low, powerful Engle-Stanko Special...
Here on the east coast, rugby has been neither as long nor as firmly established. The real impetus of its growth has come since the war, with the introduction of the Bermuda week. Today, all big eastern universities have teams except Columbia. Dartmouth is the latest comer. They sent their first team to Bermuda last spring...
Sharp Point. Bill Boyle had other things on his mind besides Lithofold in the spring of 1949. As vice chairman of the National Committee, he was plainly tagged as a comer because he was Harry's boy. Boyle was no expert in business law, yet his law office was bursting with business clients who had cases not before the courts, but before administrative agencies. In one ten-week period of 1949, when he was virtually running the committee (without salary), Boyle added eight new major cases to his portfolio, each involving a federal agency. They were worth...