Word: aug
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...make some money (as-executive vice president of American Machine & Foundry Co.). To succeed Smith, President Eisenhower last week appointed Herbert Hoover Jr., 51, son of the Republican ex-President. Hoover Jr. is a tall, unassuming engineer with diplomatic talents who carried off the oil settlement in Iran (TIME, Aug. 16). In the last hours of the 83rd Congress, the Senate confirmed Hoover's appointment without debate or dissent. He will take over his new job in October...
...smashing!"). Among his burbling fan letters, Announcer Gray got an ominous note from an anonymous husband who claimed Gray had "mesmerized" his wife. The husband threatened to kill Gray unless he retired from TV. Last week another threatening letter arrived, this time setting the day for the execution: Aug. 25. Wrote the threatener: "I stake my life against his. He will not live the day ... I promise BBC one thing-After August 24, a new television announcer." Said Gray, as he agreed to Scotland Yard protection: "I am taking this seriously...
...week starting Thursday, Aug. 26. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...
When Colette died (TIME, Aug. 16), all France seemed to mourn. Within two hours, 10,000 Parisians gathered silently in the garden of the Palais-Royal beneath the novelist's windows; four days later she was buried with a state funeral. But the Roman Catholic Church denied her its rites. At 81, Novelist Colette-whose books were far from other-worldly-had been twice divorced, was long out of communion with the church. Last week, in the weekly Figaro Littéraire, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene, a Roman Catholic convert, took Paris' Cardinal...
...executive committee chairman of the new corporation, Nance has a top executive team that agrees with his own economy-minded approach. Studebaker's bosses have already started the ball rolling by persuading 8,500 workers at their South Bend plant to accept a 14% wage cut (TIME, Aug. 23). Jim Nance & Co. will :need every additional economy they can find. In 1954's auto race,* the Big Three have gobbled up 94% of the market, given notice of an even faster pace...