Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 1906, Walter Sherman Gifford, then 21 and two years out of Harvard, wrote his father the glad news of his promotion to assistant secretary & treasurer of Western Electric Co. Salary: $24 a week. Snapped the elder Gifford, a fiercely independent Yankee lumberman: "Any damn fool can make a success in a corporation...
...years under President Gifford the Bell System's operating revenues went from $655 million up to $2.2 billion, its installed telephones from 11.2 million to 28.5 million. A pioneer in labor relations, Gifford campaigned to make all employees stockholders (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week, with 45 A.T. & T. years behind him, Board Chairman Gifford retired on a $95,000 annual pension. A.T. & T. directors, who revived the post of board chairman two years ago for Gifford, do not plan to replace him. They will let Leroy A. Wilson run the show from the president's office...
...Last week, while. Manhattan moviegoers waited in line to see the picture, Maggiorani was in an unheated flat near Rome, playing the role of the buffeted worker all over again. But this time it was more realistic than even realist De Sica could make...
...Last week, when the New York Herald Tribune's Barrett McGurn cabled the sad story, Maggiorani needed work...
...week's end Maggiorani got some help from the U.S., where movie fans prefer a happy ending. Manhattan's Italian-language radio station WOV cabled its Rome studio to hire him as an apprentice recording technician, and perhaps give him work as an actor. While Giuseppina held out for a real acting job, Maggiorani gratefully considered the offer...