Word: fairless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lester, of Teaneck, N.J. (Chemistry and Physics); Robert H. Rodgers, of New Haven, Vermont (Classics); William H. Smock, of Ithaca, N.Y. (English); Richard S. Stein, of Lincolnwood, Ill. (Social Relations); Robert S. Stern, of Springfield (Economics); Robert E. Strom, of New York City (Philosophy); Robert B. Waterbor, of Fairless Hills, Pa. (Physics), and John A. Williams, of Rye. N.Y. (English...
...management. In the 63 years since J. P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie for $500 million and brought in Judge Elbert Gary to organize U.S. Steel, the company has been guided mostly by lawyers and bankers. Of the six chairmen in its history, only one-the late Ben Fairless -ever worked regularly in a steel mill and was not a lawyer. Says a vice president of a competing steel company: "The operating people simply do not have an equal voice. The corporation would do much better if they...
...asking Lewis for one of his eyebrows to use as a toupee. Eventually Lewis backed down, and today the two old antagonists are friends. Hanging from the wall of Love's Pittsburgh office is an unlikely trinity of photographs: George Humphrey, U.S. Steel's late Ben Fairless and John L. Says Love: "I like to say that I made an enlightened labor leader out of John. And he likes to say that he made...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from...
Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg...