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Within hours after making the figures public, Harold V. Gleason resigned as chairman and president, completing an almost total wipe-out of Franklin's top management. He took the new post of executive vice chairman, and was succeeded as chief executive by Joseph W. Barr, a former Democratic Congressman from Indiana arid Secretary of the Treasury during the last few weeks of Lyndon Johnson's Administration. Frightened depositors continued to withdraw their savings. The bank lost more than $100 million in deposits last week, bringing withdrawals to $930 million, or almost a third of the $3 billion deposits...
...trigger the body's defenses), Dr. Donald Morton of the University of California at Los Angeles has found signs of viral activity in human sarcomas, or cancers of connective tissue. Drs. Werner and Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus in cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat. Joseph Melnick of Baylor College of Medicine has determined that antibodies formed...
What seems to have impressed the judge most was the argument of IBM's chief counsel, Thomas D. Barr, who contended that a failure to reduce the huge award to Telex would permit it to "claim damages which are effected by its unlawful plan to appropriate IBM's business to itself." Conceding that he faced an "almost unmanageable" problem in trying to rejigger the judgment, Christensen first plaintively requested the disputants to appeal to a higher court. But by week's end he had apparently recovered some of his old self-confidence and announced that he would...
...seat restaurant overlooking the Charles River grosses $1,000,000 a year; a second Joyce Chen's will open next month, also in Cambridge. She distributes her own line of Chinese cookware, retailed through such outlets as New York City's Abercrombie & Fitch, St. Louis' Famous-Barr and Boston's Jordan Marsh. More than 70,000 copies of The Joyce Chen Cook Book have been sold since it first appeared a decade ago. Mrs. Chen performs on her own Julia Child-style television show, which has gone into reruns on as many as 100 stations...
...Airlift. Barr's case was handled with typical military precision. The ambulance driver dispatched to the lake radioed the nearby Carbondale hospital that Barr's neck appeared broken. The "trauma coordinator" there arranged to airlift Barr 300 miles to Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, which has a unit that specializes in spinal injuries. He knew that Southern Illinois University had an ambulance plane and asked them to have it ready in Carbondale, where Barr was heading by ambulance. By the time Barr reached the airfield, a doctor was on hand to confirm the break, and a nurse...