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...rule of retired General Lucius DuBignon Clay, 64, giant Continental Can Co. will don civvies again. General Clay, newly named as President Kennedy's personal representative to Berlin, turned the chief executive officer's post over to Continental's strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) President Thomas Cyril Fogarty, 57. A whip-smart packaging expert who has been at Continental for 32 years, Fogarty will keep mobilized the battle units that General Clay set up to overcome rival American Can Co.'s sales dominance in the can industry. But aides expect the jovial Fogarty to relax Clay...
...beamed to the U.S., which was wavering on the edge of war. Apparently, Hitler's propagandists believed Plum's breezy account of his misadventures as British Civilian Prisoner 796 would lull U.S. hostility by picturing the Nazis as good-natured nitwits in the inane, innocuous image of Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay-Phipps or G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright...
...Cyril J. Staud (vice president, Eastman Kodak Co.), K2DQ
...problems of slums and schools will be discussed next Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Loeb Experimental theatre. Participants in "The Eleventh Hour in Education," taped for telecast the next night on WGBH-TV, will be Edward Logue of the Boston redevelopment Authority; Cyril Sargent, an associate with Logue; William Lynde, Superintendent of Schools in Fall River; Charles Boeham, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania; and Thomas E. Crooks, Director of the Summer School, who moderates the two-hour debates...
Such ringing conviction was the last thing his critics expected when Home took office last year. In fact, some were unkind enough to hold that his life had peaked 39 years before at Eton, where Classmate Cyril Connolly remembers him as "the graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville...