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...good reporter goes about his job on the premise that he can do his work without getting lynched, shot at or otherwise assaulted by anything more deadly than epithets. Sometimes the premise proves wrong, and last week one of those times came for Alabama-born Reporter Byron Riggan, 34, chief of TIME'S bureau in Montreal...
...Ward Keener and Arthur Kelly were named executive vice presidents of B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron. The positions were established to groom them as successors to Goodrich Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John L. Collyer, and President William S. Richardson, who must retire in 1958 at 65. Alabama-born Ward Keener, 48, made such a reputation as a business administration professor at Ohio Wesleyan University that Goodrich hired him as special analyst in 1937, gradually moved him up to vice president in charge of finance. Kelly went to the company straight from Purdue, has been with Goodrich...
...President Donold Bradford Lourie, 56, succeeded retiring Chairman John Stuart, 79, as chief executive of Quaker Oats Co. Alabama-born Don Lourie, an All-America quarterback at Princeton (class of '22), joined Quaker Oats at graduation, rose in sales and advertising departments to the presidency in 1947. Named to replace Stuart as chairman in September is his younger brother, former president and vice chairman R. (for Robert) Douglas Stuart, 70, who has served the family-founded Quaker Oats for half a century, recently retired after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Canada...
...Rictus of Terror. In the decade following World War I, Alabama-born William March became wealthy as a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Corp. After Company K's brief success, he left business for full-time writing, without getting any highbrow attention. His work, in addition to Company K, is well represented in this omnibus, with a short version of another novel, October Island, twelve fables and 21 short stories...
William Lee Sims II, 58, was elected president of Colgate-Palmolive Co., succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 49, who resigned (TIME, May 16) and joined Reynolds Metals Co. as general counsel and director. Alabama-born, Sims went to work for Colgate as a salesman in 1924, started the company's Italian subsidiary in 1927, three years later took charge of Colgate's ten European subsidiaries. In 1940 Sims was named assistant to President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president...