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Back in the early 1930s, at about the time that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was trying to pull itself out of bankruptcy, a 21 -year-old coal miner's son named Daniel Jeremiah Haughton got his degree in accounting from the University of Alabama and headed for California...
After trying his hand at a number of jobs, he finally hired on with Lockheed in 1939 as a $275-a-month production specialist. Lockheed has since come to soar, and so has Dan Haughton. He became Lockheed's executive vice president in 1956, rose to president in 1961, last week was named to succeed Courtlandt S. Gross as chairman of the board...
...Haughton, 55, is a hard-driving executive who rises at 4 o'clock every morning, works from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., often comes into the office on Saturday. His successor as president is another nose-to-the-grindstone ex-accountant, Executive Vice President A. Carl Kotchian, 52, a North Dakota-born finance specialist who has followed Haughton up the corporate ladder. In fact, Lockheed's management has been in lock step for several years, with Haughton (pronounced Hawton) serving virtually as Court Gross's alter ego, and Kotchian acting as Haughton's. Not surprisingly, Haughton...
Initially, Davis' Catholic friends were too stunned to respond to the news, although Rosemary Haughton, a housewife and lay theologian, wrote to the Guardian that his defection "is a staggering blow to the whole church." Guardian Columnist Geoffrey Moorhouse also saw it in those terms. "For Catholicism," he wrote, "it is a blow as bitter as the one Anglicans sustained 100 years ago when John Henry Newman departed for Rome." Davis' friend and superior, John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster, said only that he would pray "that God will guide him in all his undertakings...
...when he made the difficult decision to leave Gettysburg, Yovicsin told its sports information director straight-forwardly that he was going to be "the best coach Harvard ever had." Now in his 10th year, he has almost reached that goal. Only the legendary Percy D. Haughton '99 has won more games, and only Richard D. Harlow, with 11 seasons, has served longer. His six victories over Yale in nine games top all Harvard coaches, including Haughton. But a Yovicsin team still has not become sole holder of a League title. "That often depends on how much a college wants...