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...College of Cardinals banned him from the Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...
NORTHEAST AIRLINES, last domestic trunkline off federal subsidy in 1956, will be first to go back on. Chief reason: planes on New York-Miami route, on which CAB overruled its own examiner to award to Northeast after pressure from New England congressmen, are flying only 15% full v. 59% needed to break even...
...surprises of the recession was the steel industry's ability to operate at less than half capacity and still turn a profit. The chief reason for steel's sturdiness was a widespread modernization program, which cut industry costs and made production more efficient. Few firms benefited more handsomely from that policy than the nation's 17th-largest steel producer, a perky little maverick named Granite City Steel Co., located in Illinois just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. While the industry is back to about 75% of capacity, Granite City Steel this week is humming along...
...George Homer Gribbin, 51, senior vice president since 1956 of Young & Rubicam, third largest U.S. ad agency (first: J. Walter Thompson, second: McCann-Erickson) with estimated 1957 billings of $230 million, was named president, succeeding Sigurd S. Larmon, 67, who remains as chairman and chief executive officer. A small-town boy, Gribbin was born in Nashville, Mich. (pop. 1,374), graduated from Stanford University ('29), put in stints as a copywriter with Detroit's J. L. Hudson department store, the May Co., Bamberger's and R. H. Macy before joining Y. & R. in 1935. He soon made...
...Frederick Harold Cook, 43, was elected president and chief executive officer of Congoleum-Nairn, second biggest U.S. manufacturer (first: Armstrong Cork) of smooth-surface floor coverings, succeeding F. J. Andre, 59, who moved up to chairman. A salesman in the floor-covering industry since his graduation from Indiana University ('36), Cook joined Congoleum-Nairn in 1955 as a vice president in charge of sales just when sales and profits were turning down (deficit for the first nine months of this year: $1,964,720 v. $107,222 for the same period in 1957). Said Cook...