Word: alvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LUCKY CAVALIER (per Alvin J. Wolff, Master...
...Lyman C. Martin, 58, ex-factory hand, was named president and chief executive officer of Louisville's Mengel Co. (bedroom furniture, cardboard boxes), to succeed Alvin A. Voit, who resigned. After prep school, Kentuckian Martin went to work for Mengel's box factory, moved up quickly. Martin was picked for top boss by his longtime business friend Walter P. Paepcke, chairman of Container Corp. of America, which last year bought working control of Mengel. Container Corp. has no immediate plans to merge Mengel or make it a subsidiary, will let Martin run it as a separate company...
...Control Board, four times before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, twice before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and several times before Joe McCarthy's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. Matusow hobnobbed with McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and he married the wealthy ex-wife of Michigan's Republican Representative Alvin Bentley. Matusow's new wife divorced him, remarried him, then divorced him again. Last year he began work on his autobiography. Its planned title: Blacklisting Is My Business...
...Atomic Energy Commission is taking no chances this time with the sonic aftereffects of its Nevada bomb tests. A team of experts led by Dr. Alvin Graves, scientific advisor for bomb-testing, has just returned from a mission of reassurance through eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. When the next series of devices begin exploding this month, Dr. Graves hopes that the neighbors will take it calmly...
Arts in the Cabinet. Viewers were treated to a better-than-average week of pure entertainment. Jack Benny, playing the part of the New York Giants' Shortstop Alvin Dark, co-starred with Giant Manager Leo Durocher in a parody of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. But the mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another...