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...LIGHT Company had its choice of poisons: shrinking funds, disappearing audiences, indifferent critics. All three difficulties had to be overcome, but how do you approach more than one at a time? Not even Bud Collyer could have devised a more devilish game of Beat the Clock. By the time it all caved in this week, Leven's operation had led an exciting life--and one that did not have to end in failure...
...Protestants and Jews brought suit against the board of education for using "a tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to propagate their faith." Cause of the fuss: the board had approved the request of a citizens' committee, headed by Episcopal Mayor Jesse Collyer Jr., that a crèche be built on the lawn of the high school during the Christmas season...
...JANE COLLYER New York City...
Make It Tough. Such was the case last week when Moderator Bud Collyer introduced each of three men as "Thomas Carpenter, West Point cadet." One imposter was actually a Coast Guard ensign, the other a truck driver who had learned to brace his back in the Marine Corps. Both had spent the previous day at West Point, boning up on campus customs, getting regulation haircuts and uniforms fitted. Three of the panelists guessed the truck driver, an act he greeted with one of the most triumphant smiles ever flashed on the TV screen. Another time the panel had to pick...
...Jefferson Ward Keener, 48, was made president of B.F. Goodrich Co., nation's fourth largest rubber company, succeeding William S. Richardson, 63, who is retiring. Keener is slated for another early promotion, to succeed Goodrich's chairman and chief executive, John L. Collyer, 63, when Collyer reaches retirement age in September 1958. Born near Birmingham, the son of a Southern Railway conductor, Keener worked his way through Birmingham-Southern College, then the University of Chicago business school, in 1929 got a job teaching economics at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1933 he tried to go to work for Goodrich...