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...minister or priest. After going to an industrial chaplain for guidance, many a strayed sheep has returned to the flock. On their part, corporations have found that industrial chaplains are a distinct aid to morale, production, and the well-being of employees. Said Le Tourneau's Chaplain Barney Walker: "A man at peace with himself and the world around him is a good worker...
...blunt Henry Wriston said, "an admirable appointment." A tough-minded scholar with often unattainably high standards, Barney Keeney has long seemed marked for success. At the University of North Carolina he was a star trackman and the top student in his class. After taking his Ph.D. at Harvard, he joined the faculty, was one of the most promising young men in the history department. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, and because of his fluency in French and German, was eventually assigned to combat intelligence. To those who had known him before, it came...
...lease the 22-story, aluminum-sheathed Davies Building. It pays her about $120,000 a year. Down came a block of flats on her property at 55th Street and Madison Avenue, and now abuilding is the 17-story Douras Building, named for her father, onetime Manhattan Judge Barney Douras, which will bring her about $50,000 a year. By improving property she owns on 57th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, she added still more to her revenues, bought control of Fifth Avenue's Squibb Building. Still to come are improvement of two pieces of property in Los Angeles...
...longtime fight fan, and an amateur boxer himself in his younger days, Department Store Magnate Gimbel, 70. had served on the Garden board for 25 years, been its chairman for ten. But Barney Gimbel said firmly that his resignation had nothing to do with State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand's investigation into the affairs of Jim Norris' International Boxing Club, which has a strangle hold on big-time professional boxing. Yes, Gimbel was aware that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED had exposed the connections between Multi-millionaire Norris and underworld characters such as Frankie Carbo. Yes, he had heard Norris testify...
...baseball journalists of this town, sometimes called New York, have gone the way of all flash," complained the Morning Telegraph's Columnist Barney Nagler. He had a point. The season was less than a week old and the writers were already reporting everything in terms of records. Example: Dodger Carl Furillo hit four home runs in his first three games and a wire service touted him as "11 games ahead of Babe Ruth's record 1927 home-run pace." "And so it goes," moaned Columnist Nagler, "ad boredom...