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Amidst his preparations to lead a New Zealand expedition to the Antarctic in December, Sir Edmund Hillary, beekeeper and co-conqueror of Mount Everest, spread the word that he has a vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
Many experts outside Hungary concede that Sandor & Co., given a little help from some less talented trackmen, will not disappoint their countrymen: Hungary may be a small onion in the international goulash of sport, but it is a country with a determination to win. Explains ex-Sprinter Jozsef Sir (pronounced sheer), commissar of the track and field section of the sports council of the Ministry of Culture: "We train. That is our secret...
...Great Invention. When American Express was formed 106 years ago, out of a merger between three eastern companies, its founders had no thought of handling anything but freight and money. Co-Founder Henry Wells in 1841 had pioneered express service from Manhattan to Buffalo, later began New York-Buffalo mail service by printing orange stamps and carrying letters for 6? v. .the 25? Government postal rate. As a result, the U.S. Post Office set up a nationwide 3? postage in 1848. American Express helped build its freight business by introducing C.O.D. shipments, but the most important American Express invention...
...Carl Joyce Gilbert, 50, stepped up from vice president to president of Gillette Co., maker of razors, Paper-Mate pens and Toni permanent-wave kits (1955 net earnings: a record $28 million, up 9% from 1954). He succeeds Joseph P. Spang Jr., who becomes board chairman. Gilbert went to the University of Virginia, got a law degree from Harvard in 1931 and joined a Boston law firm, where he stayed until Gillette hired him as treasurer in 1948. He was made a vice president...
...became a member of the Wisconsin PUC in 1951, chairman two years later. ¶ Sir Miles Thomas, 59, who resigned as chairman of British Overseas Airways Corp. (TIME, April 2), signed on as a director of Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., British subsidiary of St. Louis' Monsanto Chemical Co. He will become the subsidiary's board chairman July 1, succeeding Edward A. O'Neal Jr., who resigns to give full time to his post as the parent company's international operations vice president...