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...McConnell, 65, who retired after 44 years with the company. The new president will be Crowdus Baker, 54, former vice president and comptroller. Kellstadt joined Sears in 1932. He was brought into the Chicago headquarters in 1946 as general retail merchandising manager, moved steadily up the ladder to a directorship in 1948 and vice-presidency the next year. In 1950 Kellstadt was appointed supervisor of Sears's southern region. At Sears business was never better. For the company year ending Jan. 31, Sears had sales of $4,036,153,139, Paid a record of $2.64 per common share. This...
...release in 1948, while eating his first home meal of raw tuna, Kishi received a phone call from Sugar Magnate Aiichiro Fujiyama, who had cared for the Kishi family during his imprisonment. He offered Kishi the chairman ship of one Fujiyama company and a directorship in another. With his income assured, Kishi looked around him at the new Japan. The good things of the occupation-land reform, abolition of the peerage, parliamentary democracy-were balanced, he thought, by such bad things as inflation, the breakup of the cartels and the wide influence of the Communists, who had been...
...past two summers, the lazy countryside around the minuscule village of Sart in Turkey has been the scene of frenetic excavations. Under the field directorship of George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Classival Antiquities at the Fogg Museum, archaeological experts from Harvard and Cornell have led Turkish workmen in an attempt to unearth the remains of the famed ancient metropolis of Sardis...
...first in peace and first in the pockets of his countrymen." Financier Fisk sacrificed the flower of his youth to selling mildewed blankets to the Union Army and smuggling Confederate cotton into the mills of his native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler, he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed...
...practice to confirm this position. Last year, he allowed Meade Alcorn to blackball Henry Labouisse--the State Department's choice for deputy director of the International Cooperation Agency--on the ground that Labouisse registered as a Democrat in 1940. Again this month, when the Department recommended Labouisse for the directorship he was passed over in favor of James Riddleberger, happily a qualified diplomat but in addition apparently politically sound...