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JOSEPH L. RAUH JR. Vice Chairman Americans for Democratic Action Washington
...March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that at 12:35 a-m Snyder belatedly issued a four-paragraph bare-bones story, which erroneously stated that the tests occurred in late September. Complained Chairman John Moss of the House Subcommittee on Government Information: "This appears to be another example of the Pentagon attempting to manage the news, and once again Murray Snyder has stumbled...
Died. Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, topflight tire-and-rubber man and Akron civic leader, longtime president (1926-40) and board chairman (1930-58) of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., developer of the first pneumatic tires for airplanes, early dedicated apostle of airship travel, manufacturer of blimps and military airplanes; following surgery; in Phoenix, Ariz...
Unknown Giant. The man who benefited most from the fast rise is an up-from-the-sidewalks Canadian financier and promoter, Louis Arthur Chesler, 46, chairman and prime mover of both Universal and General. Lou Chesler came to the U.S. three years ago with $4,000,000, has since run up a paper profit of $70 million on his Universal and General holdings alone. Yet few Wall Streeters know him, since he keeps in the background, trains the limelight on his U.S.-born junior partners...
...Albert M. Greenfield, 71, resigned as chairman of Bankers Securities Corp. ($500 million annual sales from department stores, hotels, real estate and taxi-cabs), which he founded 31 years...