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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harmon Whittington, 54, took over as president of Houston's Anderson, Clayton & Co., Inc., world's largest cotton merchants (1952 sales: $892,733,355), succeeding Lamar Fleming Jr., 61, who moved up to chairman. Whittington, who got into the cotton business because it seemed as if cotton buyers had to work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Finally Durkin got tired of waiting, decided to go ahead without a C.I.O. representative. Fortnight ago he sent the White House four nominations: ¶ For Assistant Secretary in charge of labor standards, instead of Edelman: Harrison Clayton Hobart, 64, an assistant grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a self-styled "rock-ribbed Republican." ¶For Assistant Secretary (international labor affairs): Spencer Miller Jr., 62, adult-education specialist, president of the union-sponsored International University in Springfield. Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. Out | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

When the Democratic National Committee put out the first issue of its Democratic Digest last week (TIME, July 13), Editor Clayton Fritchey explained that one of its main objectives was to help "redress the imbalance of ... the one-party editorial pages" in the U.S. press. No sooner had the first issue hit the stands than the Christian Science Monitor's Washington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond made a revealing discovery. Wrote Correspondent Drummond: "What one-party press is Fritchey talking about? More than half the cartoons [criticizing the Administration] and the clear majority of the editorial quotations . . . are from Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Discovery | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Within its Reader's Digest format, the Digest prints cartoons and writing culled from newspapers and magazines, unsigned articles of its own, and even a "full-length mystery" called Death Stalks the New Deal. Editor of the Digest is Public Relations Director Clayton Fritchey, 49, of the Democratic National Committee, ex-newsman (Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), onetime administrative assistant to Harry Truman, and press campaign adviser to Adlai Stevenson. While the Democrats are not trying to make money on the Digest, Editor Fritchey estimates it will break even on a circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Democratic Digest | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Segel, Mathematics; Daniel W. Seitz, Classics and History; Donald L. Shapiro, Biology; Clayton L. Sommers, Economics; Marshall S. Spiller, Fine Arts; Stephen Stamatopulos, Government; Mark E. Stephenson, Jr., Applied Science; Robert H. Stewart, Government; Lawrence M. Stone, Economics; George L. Sutton, Government; Louis Tiger, Jr., Physics; James A. Urdan, Social Relations; Richard J. Wagman, Biology; Sylvan R. Weiner, History and Literature; Peter T. Westegaard, Music; Robert P. Wolff, Philosophy; Robert A. Woods, History; Irving Yoskowitz, English; Eugene Zack, Biochemical Sciences; Arnold J. Zurcher, Jr., Government...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Elmer Davis Details Threats To Survival of Civilization | 6/9/1953 | See Source »

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