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...resplendence of satin, lace and jewels, viz.: Ohio's Mrs. Frank Lausche, in eggshell taffeta; Kentucky's Mrs. Sherman Cooper in black silk; Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife of the Under Secretary of the Treasury: in place of a corsage, she sported a miniature display of the medals that she won as a WAC in World War II. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who does not hold with such flossy doings, hovered so long behind the punch bowl that...
LAYOFFS are coming for Trans World Airlines as first step in economy drive by new President Carter L. Burgess (TIME, Dec. 17). Burgess complains that TWA has hired 4,900 new employees in past two years, says he may cut entire force...
...Named Defense Department General Counsel Mansfield D. Sprague, 46, to the job of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve, succeeding Carter L. Burgess, who leaves the Administration to become president of Trans World Airlines...
Virginia-born and educated (Virginia Military Institute, '39), Burgess began his fast-moving career as a New York claims adjuster for the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co. He went into the Army in 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant, emerged three years later a colonel and secretary to the General Staff at SHAEF. After a spell in the State Department, he was assistant to T.W.A. President Jack Frye in 1946-47. When Frye quit to run General Aniline & Film, Burgess went along, later was tapped to head a study of White House organization...
...Defense Secretary Wilson spotted Burgess-a Democrat-for-Eisen-hower-and brought him full-time into the Administration as Assistant Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including...