Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most successful wits today is a waspish foreigner known as Vicky. As six-days-a-week political cartoonist for the Laborite Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,-696), world's biggest daily, German-born Vicky (real name: Victor Weisz) has built the largest following of any British cartoonist since David Low at his wartime peak. While he has not as yet won Low's fame, most Fleet Streeters agree that Vicky is Britain's top cartoonist...
...there are now two Sarnoffs: Founder David and his son Robert, who was eight when the first radio network was born...
...been of a different temperament when he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1953, David Falk of Hampton, Va. might have been satisfied to stretch the $5,000 his father had given him to cover his next four years. But instead of making a budget, Falk decided to indulge in a bit of extracurricular tycoonery...
Thirty years ago, over cornucopia-shaped Radiolas, Americans in 25 cities heard the first peep out of the National Broadcasting Co., created by RCA's David Sarnoff to sell more of what he first envisioned as a "radio music box." Last week, with a $350,000 birthday party in Miami, NBC proudly surveyed what Sarnoff had wrought. It had grown into a giant with 207 TV and 188 radio affiliates, yearly net revenue of $159 million, 5,500 employees and 35 vice presidents,*and the cachet of being sued by the U.S. as a monopoly...
...George Champion, 52, was named president, and David Rockefeller, 41, vice chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank in a move designed to bring younger men into top posts in New York City's No. i and the nation's No. 2 bank (first: Bank of America). Born in Illinios. Banker Champion graduated from Dartmouth in 1926 (where he played on the undefeated football team that year), spent seven years with various banks until he joined Chase in 1933, stayed on to become senior vice president in charge of the United States Department (lending and deposit relations with banks, other...