Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special committee appointed by George V. Allen, director of the U.S. Information Agency: Franklin C. Watk.ins of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Henry Radford Hope, chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University; and Sculptor Theodore Roszak of Sarah Lawrence College...
...billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from $50,000 per farmer to $50,000 per crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South Dakota Republican Francis Case casually made a point of order: Wasn't this provision circumventing...
...grateful directors of the Hupp Corp. last week voted a $110,000 bonus to Board Chairman John O. Ekblom, 64, on top of his $42,000 salary, for the crack job he did in pulling the company out of the red. To the directors' surprise, Ekblom turned down the bonus, saying that his salary "satisfies my needs and my appetite." He suggested that the money be used for incentive bonuses for Hupp's executives, who need it far more. Said Ekblom: "I want to focus some attention on the country's forgotten man-the corporation executive paid...
After all the months of speculation, the climax came so fast only the experts could follow the action. Sotheby's Chairman Peter Wilson, forehead beaded from strain and the heat of his serge coat and striped pants, started the bidding by asking diffidently: "Shall I say ?20,000?" A voice promptly sang out "?100,000." Bidding with lips, eyebrows, fingers and catalogues, dealers whooped the price upward at the rate of ?5,000 every four seconds...
...Paul Rudolph, 40, Harvard-trained and now chairman of Yale's architecture department, got an A.I.A. merit award with his home for F. A. Deering (opposite). In a sharp break with the low, rambling Florida beach house. Architect Rudolph erected a building of surprising elegance and solidity on Casey Key, a sand strip near Sarasota, Fla. A shoebox on the exterior, the house is full of surprises inside. Ten rooms are ranged over five different levels like so many stage elevations. Ceilings vary from 16 ft. 6 in. (for the broad beach porch...