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...Howard Stolpp Bunn, 58, executive vice president of Union Carbide Corp., second largest U.S. chemical company, became president, succeeding Morse G. Dial, 63, who moved up to chairman and continues as chief executive officer. A Philadelphia-born, Lehigh-educated ('20) chemist, Bunn is more salesman than scientist, has been executive vice president since 1955, is Dial's probable successor...
...clocks, wrist watches, even a ship's clock in one lucky room, hunger pangs, and the sun (on those rare days) to remind us of mortality. In addition, Mem Church chimes approximately 325 happy times during a weekday, the Lowell House bells ring spasmodically, and there is the sun-dial in back of Lamont. You may not have known about the sun-dial, because, like all of the time reminders owned and operated by the University, it is fairly unobtrusive. And all are hushed as night steals across the campus. In general, the situation is satisfactory...
...play the guitar. Just turn the dial and strum. No fingering necessary . . . You can go on TV with your own guitar and your own entertainment." This invitation to the arts is part of an advertisement for the Dial-A-Chord, a $12 gadget that enables a fledgling guitarist to change chords at the flick of a plastic wheel and presumably to toss off a habanera at first strumming. Music merchants on their way home last week from their annual convention in Chicago went armed with dozens of such labor-saving and interest-killing devices designed to hook some...
...murder mystery The Mousetrap, which is still running in London after six years and holds the all-time record for commercial longevity. It is a fairly neat and entertaining piece of construction, though the characters are all clear stereotypes. But it certainly ranks lower than such other examples as Dial M for Murder and Witness for the Prosecution...
...dial turner in search of music these days is likely to encounter a shrill, nasal voice spewing at triphammer speed sentiments something like these...