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...company (it is fourth among all insurance firms) has also reshaped the skyline of the $178 billion insurance industry, introducing such firsts as double indemnity and automobile insurance. Last week Travelers did some internal reshaping. Into its vacant chairman's seat moved erudite President J. (for John) Doyle DeWitt, 62, to be replaced as president by Executive Vice President Sterling T. Tooker, 51, the likely successor as chief executive when DeWitt retires three years from...
What Goes On. In an industry traditionally dominated by financial men, DeWitt and Tooker are exceptions. DeWitt joined Travelers in 1925, as a claims adjuster, moved through that field to become president in 1952; at his instigation, Travelers has become famous for fast claim paying. Tooker, a Hartford native, was first an actuary, moved over to personnel work after World War II naval service, and has since supervised the 50,000 Travelers agents and brokers who sell policies in 50 states and Canada. Under this untraditional hold, the largest multiple-line insurance company operates with a relaxed kind of multiple...
...happened. Two of the older boys, after staggering around with laughter at my ignorance, let me in on where babies come from, but I didn't believe it. After awhile we agreed to become a Biology Club, not through any interest in biology, though my brother, a character at DeWitt Clinton High School, had told me what it meant, but because being a Biology Club opened the delightful prospect of carving the date on a park bench followed by the letters B.C., to confound future archaeologists...
When he is able to work, DeWitt Easter, 59, is a skilled plasterer who can earn $175 a week in Washington, D.C. But Easter is seldom out of jail and sober. An alcoholic whose father was an alcoholic, he has been arrested 70 times for public intoxication-a "crime" for which Washington arrests 44,000 people a year. While such police work tidies up the streets, the fact that 70% of the arrests involve repeaters like Easter suggests that Washington's anti-drunk laws are more punitive than preventive. And it is just this premise that has spurred some...
...officer directing Exercise Delawar, General Paul DeWitt Adams, 57, is reputed to be the roughest, most hard-nosed American commander since General George S. Patton. Subordinates look into his leathery face, freeze before his cold stare and stern lips, dub him "Old Stoneface." The most combat-experienced commander on active duty, Adams expresses his military credo succinctly. Says he: "The man who creates the most violence in a military situation is the one who will...