Word: crouch
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chase scene, he will rush around his office, crouch behind desks, push over chairs, hide in his anteroom and come popping out with an excited summary of the action. Once his conferees were startled on entering the office to find him prone on the floor under his desk. "I've got it!" he yelled exultantly as they entered. "The guy is under the truck. He's fixing a flat-he's like this. And whack! The truck slips off the jack and down onto his neck! It's great! Great!" Re-enacted on the screen...
...Childs's 53 restaurants two months ago for about $1,500,000. The team: crisp, ruddy-faced President N. Clark Earl Jr., onetime top aide to Restaurant Man Howard Johnson and formerly a colonel in charge of Army PXs and commissaries in Europe, and Executive Vice President Charles Crouch, 51, who had built up six faltering grocery stores into California's successful Lucky Stores chain (TIME, June 30, 1947). Although Childs had lost almost $230,000 in 1949 on a gross of nearly $20 million, the new team thought that Childs could be a moneymaker if the right...
...Plumbers. They cut $293,000 in annual costs by centralizing the restaurants' purchasing system and dropping the maintenance department. (Says Crouch: "We're restaurant men, not plumbers.") To boost the low morale of their 5,000 employees, they made each manager directly responsible for his restaurant, handed each a 20% raise and the promise of a profit-sharing plan if & when there are profits to be shared. They hired an ex-Powers model to teach Childs waitresses how to look better, centralized the baking job in New York and cut the bakers from 72 to five...
...Loss. As Sherry's new president (in a friendly switch of titles, Earl is executive vice president), Crouch plans to give franchises to stores and restaurants throughout the country to sell Sherry products; he already has 150 such requests...
...Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing Illinois newsmen on state payrolls (TIME, May 9, 1949); Editor Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot, best editorial, on Memorial Day; Photographer Bill Crouch of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune; Cartoonist James T. Berryman of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star...