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...President Augustus C. Long, 51, was named to succeed Texas Co.'s John Sayles Leach, chairman and chief executive officer, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 in September. Long's successor in the presidency: James W. Foley, 44. Long and Foley, a young top-management team, will captain the third largest U.S. international oil company (behind Standard Oil of N.J. and Gulf in oil reserves and gross income). Chairman-elect Long graduated from Annapolis ('26), joined Texaco after a hitch with the Navy. In World War II he saw Navy duty in London, helped Allied...
Appointed to the bench by President Roosevelt in 1942 at the age of 35, Wyzanski said in his letter that the judges he most admires, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Justice Benjamin Cardozo, and Judge Augustus N. Hand, "have been the strictest in applying to themselves a self-denying ordinance when they were offered attractive posts outside of their courts...
Dean Bundy has announced the winners of two Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowships for study in France and the winner of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for study in Cambridge, England. All three recipients are seniors...
Greatest of Dresden's art patrons was Augustus III (1696-1763), both Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, who lived for art, was willing to spend as much as "twelve barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna...
Scattered preliminary first-quarter company reports bore out the bullish picture. Texas Co. President Augustus C. Long predicted better first-quarter earnings for Texaco than in '55; Consolidated Foods netted 29% more in the 36 weeks ending March 10 than in the like period a year before; Granite City Steel forecast a first-quarter record for steel shipments...