Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent moviemaking outfit. Eying his prospects of being Rita's fifth bridegroom, Bachelor Hill, now busy with a screen version of Separate Tables that will star Rita, avidly wants "Rita to find happiness when she marries again. She has had so much unhappiness in her life" (with Oilman Edward Judson, Actor Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan and Crooner Dick Haymes). As usual when altar-bound. Bride-to-Be Hayworth was plucky and positive: "I have never been happier in my whole life...
Holy Cross doctors took X rays which indicated stomach cancer, and incidentally showed a stonelike mass, 6 in. long, in the abdomen. Dr. Edward J. Krol and colleagues decided to remove it. The object, they report in the Illinois Medical Journal, was a lithopedion (stone child), a petrified fetus of three to four months' gestation. The doctors' conclusion: what had troubled Mrs. W. 37 years ago was not the flu but an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized ovum had lodged in one of the Fallopian tubes. As the fetus grew, it burst the tube and escaped into...
...since the Government accused General Motors last July of making $17.4 million in excess profits on a contract to build 599 F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters (TIME, Aug. 5), G.M. has jittered at the prospect of a court case and possible bad publicity. Last week Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, whose House Armed Services Subcommittee had brought out the original charge, announced that G.M. has moved to settle with the Government. It offered to refund a total of $9,701,458 to the Air Force. Already in the hands of the Air Force is a check...
...Bowman Gray, 50, moved up from executive vice president to president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), second largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first: American Tobacco Co.). He succeeds Edward A. Darr, 67, who becomes vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee; Chairman John C. Whitaker remains as chief executive officer. Bowman Gray, older brother of Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray, began at Reynolds as a salesman in 1930 while his father was company president, became assistant sales manager in 1939, sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955. A chief stockholder...
...shareholder revolt in which Raider J. Patrick Lannan (TIME, July 25, 1955) and two associates won places on Minneapolis-Moline's board of directors two months ago. Lannan's H. M. Byllesby & Co. bought into Minneapolis-Moline two years ago with Henry Reddig and his brother Edward when the company's prospects looked good and its stock was selling at $18 a share (with a book value of $47). But the company failed to strengthen its competitive position, was hard-hit by the slump in farm income, saw its earnings drop from $66 million...