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Summers, Percy clerked at Bell & Howell for $16 to $20 a week, caught the eye of benevolently despotic President Joseph McNabb, Percy's onetime Sunday school teacher. McNabb offered Percy his pick of jobs upon graduation, and Percy chose to take charge of B. & H.'s tiny defense production. Within months the U.S. went to war, and Percy at 21 was bossing B. & H.'s biggest endeavor. McNabb, who made all the company's decisions, placed Percy on the board at 23. After 35 months in the Navy (up from apprentice seaman to lieutenant), Percy became...
TALMADGE F. McNABB Chaplain (Captain), U.S.A. Fort Benning...
...Starting out with a $5,000 investment, they pioneered the movie industry's first reliable cameras and projectors, boasted that they "took the flick out of the flickers." Partner Bell sold out in 1921. Howell remained to advise a brisk new management, headed by the late J. H. McNabb, which made a stab at the amateur market with the first handheld, spring-driven 16-mm. movie camera for well-heeled hobbyists...
Moving into the top job in 1949, after a 13-year apprenticeship broken by three years in the Navy, 29-year-old President Percy, McNabb's protege, drew a bead on amateurs who wanted the simplest kind of inexpensive equipment. He brought out a $39.95 movie camera that was $40 cheaper than other models Bell & Howell was selling. It was $10 cheaper than the company's least expensive prewar camera, even though assembly-line wages had risen from 40? to $2 an hour. Then Percy went to work simplifying his machines. Simultaneously, he sharply increased Bell & Howell...
...Mary McNabb, 17, Tuskegee Institute freshman, the 200 meter dash in 0:24.3 seconds (new U.S. record) and the 50 meter dash in 0:06.4 seconds (tying the U.S. record) at the National Amateur Athletic Union Junior Track & Field Championships; in Waterbury, Conn...