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...operations. Last week the GSA got a boss with experience in a multitude of business fields. Sworn in as General Services Administrator was big (6 ft. 3 in., 198 Ibs.), gruff Franklin Floete (pronounced floaty), who has been a banker, real estate dealer, lumber retailer, construction company operator, automobile distributor, tractor and farm implement dealer, rancher (he lives on what he believes to be the only farm within the Des Moines city limits) and, most recently, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Properties and Installations...
Playboy, was, however, misshipped, and instead of arriving at Capitol News Co. in Boston, the local distributor, found its way to the offices of another news company, of the same name, but not in the Boston area...
...president to president of fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John Clifford Garrett, who moves up to board chairman...
...Boylston Street office certainly did fumble this fall on undergraduate tickets. Not just for the Massachusetts game, when upperclassmen "stormed" the H.A.A. on Saturday morning looking for their tickets, but throughout the season, students were failing to get their tickets on time from either the House distributors or the Athletic Department itself. Often the purchasers merely happened to miss the meals at which the tickets were available. At other times the distributor himself, because of an afternoon lab or perhaps an unreliable roommate, failed to get to Friday lunch in his House. In any case, dining hall distribution is inefficient...
...senior complained last night that he and his roommate, another senior, applied for Yale seats together, both using Dartmouth forms. His roommate received two seats high up on the fifty for $7 when his blank successfully got by the distributor. He was not so lucky, and had to pay $10 for two seats only six rows up from the field and near the goal line...