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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: To the money he inherited, Weeks has added a fortune he built as chairman of the board of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips) and chairman of the board of Reed & Barton Corp. (silverware). A founder of Boston's first Young Men's Republican Club, Weeks developed an early passion for politics. "When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW ADMINISTRATION: THE NEW ADMINISTRATION | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Howard Edwards Whitaker, 48, executive vice president of the $100 million Mead (paper) Corp., was moved up to president, succeeding Charles R. Van de Carr Jr., 66, who becomes chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Promotions | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...sunny Sunday not long ago, Sociology Professor Carr B. Lavell of George Washington University took one of his students on a fishing trip. He is a brilliant student, president of his class, a big man on campus, evidently with a bright future in his chosen field, medicine. In the bracing air, professor and student had a quiet talk. Why had he gone into medicine? asked the professor. Answer: medicine looked lucrative. What did he want to do as a doctor? Get into the specialty that offered biggest fees. Did he think that a doctor owed some special service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Grays 9.10--Theodore J. Schultz (Jefferson City, Missouri); Grays 41-2--Dominique H. Wyant (Atlanta, Georgia); Hollis 7--Frank S. Ham (Washington, D.C.); Holworthy 4--Herman Y. Carr (Warren, Ohio); Holworthy 20--Daniel C. Weary (Junction City, Kansas); Lionel A-21--Robert L. Fischelis (Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leighton Selects Proctors in Yard | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Seldom brilliant, but always steady, Chapman ousted Irishman Joe Carr in one semifinal, while another former U.S. amateur champion (1949), Charley Coe, was beating Welshman Albert Evans to make it the third all-American finish in five years. In the final, after the first eighteen holes against younger (27) and longer-hitting Coe, Dick Chapman led 2-up, with a two-under-par 70 over the soggy, windswept Royal Porthcawl course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reward for Persistence | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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