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...Stock Exchange at the age of 21, was ousted from Lionel when a new group led by Lawyer Roy M. Cohn took control of the company founded by Cowen's father (who gave his middle name, Lionel, to the toy electric trains he created). At Schick, Cowen succeeds Chester G. Gifford, who took over as Schick chairman in November 1958 when Revlon President Charles Revson bought a controlling 20% share of Schick stock for Revlon, resigned after a stormy tenure...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who led the U.S. Navy to an epic Pacific victory in World War II, gracefully navigated an epic birthday celebration, his 75th, in San Francisco. At a testimonial banquet, Old Seadog Nimitz happily wore a double lei of red carnations (a gift from the people of Hawaii), licked frosting from his finger, and modestly ducked a salvo of praise. As for a big birthday party: "I feel the same way about it as the man who bought himself a small boat. His two happiest days were when he bought it and when he sold...
When Warren Sutton, 21, first heard of Alfred in 1957, he was co-captain of the Chester (Pa.) High School team, which ranked second in Pennsylvania. The towering (6 ft. 4 in.) son of a steelworker, shy Warren Sutton was a good student and hoped to enter Columbia University; but his college board exam score was ten points too low. Alfred's Basketball Coach Pete Smith promptly got him a scholarship. Warren broke 20 Alfred records, last year was the nation's fourth-ranking rebounder in small college play, and he stayed as shy and studious as ever...
...work." Back at the police station, before being convoyed home by the Alfred police chief, Dorothy told Warren: "I want you to go home, honey, and finish your education. I'm going to finish mine. We'll have our day." Then she kissed him. Back in Chester, Warren's mother said sadly: "I feel the same way as the girl's father. I'm sending Warren money to come home-a boy needs his mother at a time like this...
...study of his home in Berkeley, Calif., snow-topped Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, soon to be 75, leafed through some historic papers dating from the days when he commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. But he made it clear that he was just browsing and not afflicted by any passion to pen his memoirs, as so many of his comrades-in-arms have done. Such books, said he, brim with "many critical remarks and self-praise at the expense of others. Any memoirs I wrote could not add historically to what has been written...