Word: doriot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Band-Room Barbs. There is also a longstanding belief among impresarios that for psychological reasons, audiences do not respond so well to women players, because the "conflict and domination" struggle with an instrument is strictly man's work. When attractive Doriot Dwyer was appointed first flutist of the Boston Symphony 14 years ago, one proper Brahmin sent her a package with a letter demanding that she hide her exposed ankles with the enclosed pair of thick grey stockings. She demurred, and at least one Boston man is glad; since the arrival of the ladies, he has taken to watching...
...period has it been played by so many virtuoso performers. In the U.S. and Europe, there are at least 30 first-rate flutists-London's Geoffrey Gilbert and William Bennett, Manhattan's John Wummer and Samuel Baron, Rochester's Joseph Mariano, Boston's Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Detroit's Albert Tipton, Marlboro's Louis Moyse-and among them there are four who may well belong among the great flute players of all time...
Hand Screening. Started in 1959 by French-born Harvard Professor Georges Doriot, who noticed and decided to correct the lack of top-quality management training in Europe, INSEAD today has 120 students from 25 countries. Most of them are Europeans, but seven are from the U.S., and others come from Brazil, India, Japan and South Viet Nam. Students or their sponsoring firms pay $1,800 tuition and board for the one-year course; students can also draw scholarship loans, since INSEAD is financed in large part by donations from international corporations. Though the permanent faculty is small, guest lecturers come...
High Voltage Gains. A.R.D. was founded in 1946 by French-born Doriot, Massachusetts Investors Trusts lateChairman Merrill Griswold and Vermont's former U.S. Senator Ralph Flanders. Doriot soon took over as president, and the company took a loss on its very first investment-a degreasing gun. It lost money consistently for the first four years. It also failed to see much future in Ampex or Varian Associates, which went on to rise high in the space...
...Doriot persisted in searching out promising ventures, fearlessly backed some successful firms-such as Bostons Ionics Inc., whose main business salting water-that were declared valueless by technical experts. Almost alone, ARD. took note of M.I.T. Professor Robert J. Van de Graaff's research into super voltages, put up $200,000 for him to start High Voltage Engineering Corp. in 1946- and has since seen the value of this investment grow to more than $13 million. A.R.D. has raised $19 million from the public distributed $4,500,000 in capital gains to its shareholders, has current assets...