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Protégé Behind Him. This bouncy giant was founded in 1898 by Akron Brothers Charles and Frank Seiberling, who named the company after Charles Goodyear, discoverer of the vulcanizing process. The Seiberlings had the good fortune to hire a young engineering genius named Paul Weeks Litchfield, who came up with a more easily detachable auto tire than any on the market and by 1916 had built the company into the largest tiremaker. Litchfield took full control of the company in 1921, when Wall Street bankers pushed out the Seiberlings on the ground that they had dangerously overextended...
...Burns, "and they pattern themselves after the glamour boys. Nobody wants to be a Rosie Grier or a Big Daddy Lipscomb." Conditioned by the heart-stopping excitement of the pro game, fans implored college coaches to pass, pass, pass. At least one university head joined the chorus. Chancellor Edward Litchfield of the University of Pittsburgh ordered Pitt Coach John Michelosen to open up. "Three things I find intolerable," Litchfield said. "Winning all the time, losing all the time, and being dull. I would rather lose 28-27 than win 7-6." Two weeks ago, when tricky Pitt pulled a fake...
Worse yet, if the stainless blade lasts for too many shaves (some Wilkinson shavers boast up to 20), it could mean a cut in Gillette's total sales. Says Mark Litchfield, Gillette's assistant treasurer: "If the stainless steel blade gives twelve shaves or more, we could have some real problems...
...when a man could win two and three events at the national level has past, and the person who is making this fact most evident is Al Tyll, the Men's National Trick Riding Champion from Litchfield, Connecticut...
Park Out of Nothing. Dr. Litchfield boasts that Panther Hollow Center will be a great improvement over the usual research park, argues that to build comparable research facilities in the conventional manner would require 2,000 acres. "To find this kind of acreage at an acceptable price," he says, "we would be forced to go 20 miles beyond the city. Instead, we in effect have created 75 acres of new usable park area out of nothing, giving us the best-located research facility in the world today. Scientists need-and insist on-close contact with academic institutions and other cultural...