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...election morning this week, the rising orange sun flashed on the Boston steeples and rooftops and glanced through the mist on the old streets as John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his expecting wife drove to the stately West End (Congregational) Church in the Sixth Ward to vote...
...grew out of his militant resentment of the New Deal. In 1942 he had reluctantly signed a C.I.O. contract, which required him to check off union dues. An enemy of the closed shop, he refused to renew the contract in 1944, and Roosevelt reluctantly seized control of Ward. Avery refused to relinquish control to a U.S. marshal, and U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle hurriedly flew to Chicago to preside as two G.I.s carried Avery out of his office. As he was carried away, Avery flung the ultimate epithet at Biddle: "You New Dealer!" No Depression. When the war ended, Avery...
Montgomery Ward then began an expansion program that used up Avery's hoard. Last August, Avery could draw a measure of quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...Died. Ward Bond, 57, veteran movie actor (150 films) who hit the high road as the burly boss of TV's Wagon Train; of a heart attack; in Dallas...
Died. Sewell Lee Avery, 86, crusty, rapid-firing (60 top executives in 24 years) boss of Montgomery Ward & Co.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his lakeshore Chicago apartment (see BUSINESS...