Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more imposing than the committee's mushroom cloud was the committee's list of well-heeled and influential supporters. Among the signers of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration: Committee Co-Chairman Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review; former Democratic National Committeewoman India Edwards...
Last week one of Little Rock's leading citizens broke the silence with a brave try. He was Herbert L. Thomas Sr., 59, public-spirited millionaire founder of the First Pyramid Life Insurance Co. of America, who by Arkansas standards is regarded as a sound moderate in race relations. In 1948, while chairman of the University of Arkansas trustees, Thomas got a phone call warning him that a young Negro war veteran was on his way to apply for admission to the law school. He made the decision to let him in and thereby made Arkansas the first...
...much Bloomgarden pockets each week is his secret. But it is no secret that he did a hard sell to get co-backers for both current hits. With Angel, he had so much trouble that he finally had to give co-producer billing to a syndicate of 200 individual investors who put up $46,425 of the $125,000 cost. CBS, which put up the $400,000 for My Fair Lady, brushed off a $300,000 chance to finance The Music Man, missed a deal for 40% of the profits. Collecting modest sums from many angels, Bloomgarden got Music...
...University Travel Co. recently reiterated a charge that Victor R. Besso '57, director of last summer's Harvard-Rad-cliffe charter flight to Europe, mishandled funds and violated Civil Aeronautics Board regulations in organizing the flight...
There has apparently been hard feeling, however, between the University Travel Co. and Salomon since the latter declined earlier this year to promote a second student flight this summer in a plane chartered by University Travel. "Bloomberg made it pretty clear he would try to make trouble for us," Salomon said last night...