Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduate of Choate and Yale, he started as a pickle-salting hand for $1 a day in the Plymouth, Ind. plant where his father started before him. Later stints in the Berkeley, Calif, plant as cleanup man and in the London branch as pickle peddler helped him through the lower ranks. In 1936 he settled down in Pittsburgh for final grooming before taking over the family empire...
...Roberts, former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Russell W. Davenport, onetime managing editor of FORTUNE and Willkie campaign coordinator; Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College; A. Powell Davies, clergyman-author (The Faith of an Unrepentant Liberal); and youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time staffers, all under 30, is energetic Managing Editor Helen B. Hamer, alumna of Manhattan's Greenwich Villager and Science Illustrated. The "panel of contributors" includes Wickham Steed, Elmo Roper, Pertinax, Magyar Cartoonists Derso & Kelen...
...Francisco's aquiline old Amadeo Peter Giannini, whose $5,538 million, 493-branch Bank of America is the world's largest private bank (TIME, April 15), circled low for another capture. His prey: the $360 million, 31-branch Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles...
Last fall, Brooklyn's Branch ("The Brain") Rickey tossed a bomb into baseball and stuck his fingers in his ears. He signed up Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop and onetime football star at U.C.L.A., for his Montreal farm club (TIME, Nov. 5). It was the first time a Negro had ever played Class AA ball without being passed off as a Cuban, a Mexican, or an Indian and there were a good many skeptics who said that it wouldn't work. By last week some of them would admit they were wrong: Jackie Robinson was the International...
Married. Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 35, head of the British branch of the great banking family, who forsook finance to become a Cambridge don; and Teresa Georgina Mayor, O.B.E., 30; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...