Word: edmond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sosthenes Behn, 74, stepped down as chairman and chief executive of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., but will continue as a member of the board and the executive committee. Chief executive will be I.T. & T.'s new president, Edmond H. Leavey (TIME, May 7). Hawk-faced Sosthenes Behn founded I.T. & T. in 1920, when he and brother Hernand bought a struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged...
...works of two other printmakers who picked up prizes in both the Washington and Brooklyn shows indicate that the trend is away from experiment for its own sake. One of the best of the new comers. Edmond Casarella, used cardboard in relief to make Rock Cross, but the success of the finished work depends on the careful preliminary sketches he made of rocks along the Maine coast. In Winter, Gabor Peterdi of Yale's Design Center combined both etching and engraving techniques. The result, a moody study of brush locked in wintry immobility, is an imaginative rendering of nature...
...Edmond H. Leavey, 60, was named president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., succeeding the late William H. Harrison. Leavey, a Texan and a West Pointer ('17) with a civil-engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic, taught military science at M.I.T. and served as chief engineer for WPA before going off to war. He commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender...
...special committee will investigate hazing and initiation practices in colleges, according to a resolve filed at the State House by Representative Edmond J. Donlan of West Roxbury yesterday...
...Oscar" Nominations (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Presented for the Motion Picture Academy by William Holden, Judy Holliday, Edmond O'Brien, Celeste Holm...