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...theme, Mort announced: "President Eisenhower is in charge of everything-whenever Nixon leaves the country." Picking off the mighty and famous, Sahl got the surprise of the week when his angriest foe turned out to be his TV sponsor, California Millionaire Bart Lytton (Lytton Savings & Loan Association). A Kennedy backer.* Lytton simmered in the control booth as Sahl and guests enthusiastically reviewed the merits of Adlai Stevenson on the air, finally barged into the studio and woofed into the microphone that the show was not "a Stevenson rally." Complained Sahl: "I have been accused of being everything except partisan...
...products of Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp. have so far been too expensive to be a commercial success, but Fairchild is confident that it "will make back every nickel eventually." An early backer of Dr. Gabriel Giannini, the noted physicist, Fairchild in 1946 bought into Giannini Controls of California, a manufacturer of transducers and other sensitive flight instruments. He now owns 9% of the company, which is growing at a 25% yearly rate under Fairchild-picked President Donald Putnam...
Ambassadors at Large. The Wall Street crash unnerved Joe Kennedy and persuaded him to put aside his innate conservatism and become an ardent supporter and a lavish financial backer of Franklin Roosevelt. As SECommissioner and chief of the Maritime Commission, where he performed a notable service to his country by salvaging and reorganizing the bankrupt U.S. merchant marine, Joe lived in Washington for long stretches, frequently brought the family down to meet President Roosevelt and the top dogs of the New Deal. When Roosevelt appointed Joe Kennedy as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-the first...
...battle to persuade U.S. hospitals to try her physical-therapy methods for treating infantile paralysis back in the early 19403, the late Australian-born Sister Elizabeth Kenny suddenly found an enthusiastic backer in Minneapolis' Mayor Marvin L. Kline. He was the prime mover in getting the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation, Inc. set up in Minneapolis in 1943. In 1946, after upstart Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey ousted him from office, Republican Kline became the foundation's executive director...
...Economic Adviser (and Detroit banker) Joseph Dodge lick Japan's postwar inflation. The Socialists hinted that they might offer parliamentary support to Kenzo Matsumuru, one of the 27 Liberal Democrats who did not vote for the treaty, and who was recently feted in Peking as a backer of closer ties between Japan and Red China...