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Died. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, 86, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930, who resigned under fire when slave-running operations were uncovered in the African republic founded by freed U.S. slaves; after a long illness; in Monrovia...
...investment banker brother Paul. To replace Smith as chief executive officer, the Shieldses installed bluff, chunky President Harry Coll, 52. who had been with Chris-Craft since 1939. Even before the Shields brothers took over. Coll had sent his close friend. Sales Vice President Charles R. Burgess, 51. off to survey the company's dealer organization. "Time and again,'' recalls Burgess. ;a dealer would tell me, 'You're the first Chris-Craft s.o.b. that has visited my place in 20 years.' " When the survey was done, Coll and Burgess lopped off 180 nonproductive dealers...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Burgess Meredith and Fritz Weaver co-star in The Obsolete Man, the story of a librarian in a state where books are outlawed...
...back in January. But, he said, Chevrolet has not as yet delivered the cars. "This does not look like they are too perturbed about business, does it?" Many cities, agreeing to support Mariani, asked for business in return. Coral Gables, Fla., hoped that Detroit could send more tourists. The burgess of the borough of Phoenixville, Pa., who also works for a boiler company, sent along boiler literature. Orangeburg, S.C., asked the mayor to "anticipate your need for textiles and make purchases accordingly." If everyone keeps his word, the 300 letters Mayor Mariani has already received represent about...
...Crimson ace took the lead at the start of the race, and increased it steadily. He won by a huge margin over Yale's Dave Burgess. Kaufmann split 25.5 for the butterfly, 30.9 for the backstroke, 39.2 for the breastsroke, and 28.2 for the free-style...