Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Maxwell Jones Jr., 26, stood quietly in the rear of the elevator one morning last week as it went up to the 45th floor of Cincinnati's 48-story Carew Tower. The elevator operator noticed nothing about Jones except that he was the only Negro in the car, that he was hatless and wore a tan gabardine topcoat. Jones got off on 45, walked up the winding stairway to the observation tower atop the building. The tower door was locked, but he found a window just above the 47th floor and jimmied it open. He climbed out, stepped...
...M.I.T. graduate who got his start in the Depression washing kettles for the Campbell Soup Co., Bunker moved to the Wilson meat-packing company as an engineer in 1934, did a stint as head of the industrial engineering department, and became manufacturing vice president for the Kroger Co. Then Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., makers of truck trailers, heard about the boy wonder and hired him as president in 1949. In a year and a half, Bunker streamlined Trailmobile's sales, services and production, doubled sales to $52 million and increased the net more than tenfold...
...three newspaper members, recently named, are Victor O. Jones '28, night editor of the Poston Globe; Wallace Carroll, executive editor of the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal; and Eugene S. Duffield, assistant publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Of the three, Jones is a former Nieman Fellow...
...year-old Enquirer, Cincinnati's leading daily and its only morning and Sunday newspaper, was sold last week for $7,500,000. The buyer: Cincinnati's afternoon Times-Star (circ. 150,489), published by 74-year-old Hulbert Taft, whose cousin, Senator Bob Taft, owns 5% of the paper (TIME, Jan. 14). The Enquirer (circ. 185,283 daily, 269,415 Sunday) has been held in trust by Washington's American Security & Trust Co. since Owner John R. McLean died in 1916, and Washington's district court must still approve the sale. Under the deal, the Times...
Saudi Arabia's polygamous old King Ibn Saud takes good care of his wives, both past & present. Last week a Cincinnati hearse manufacturer showed off a new $250,000 present the King is buying for his four present and some 120 former wives-20 new Cadillacs with custom-built bodies to make them desertproof and peekproof. The King will use them to carry his wives between the twin capitals of Riyadh and Mecca. Each car has six doors, accommodates six wives (plus chauffeur and attendant), has electric fans, special windows so the women...