Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another eye opener: Columbia Broadcasting System's Director Edward R. (See It Now) Murrow, whose $316,000 pay was highest for the industry, even more than that of President Frank Stanton ($293,857) and Chairman William S. Paley ($241,526) or of R.C.A.'s David Sarnoff ($200,000). Others in the salary stratosphere...
...Distillers Corp.-Seagrams' President Samuel Bronfman, International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson, United Merchants 81 Manufacturers' President J. W.Schwab, Colgate-Palmolive Chairman Edward H. Little, Procter & Gamble President Neil H. McElroy, Republic Steel's President C. M. White...
...Sydney airport, a sick, sad-faced man in his 60s, traveling under the name of Edward Gray, boarded an airliner and flew off for Rome. After almost nine years in Australia, he would probably never see it again. His true identity: famed Maestro-Composer Eugene Goossens, resigned as conductor of the Sydney Symphony, his spirit and reputation broken by his conviction and $225 fine for importing pornographic movies and pictures into Australia (TIME, April...
When Captain Edward A. Tappe boarded his Capital Airlines DC-4 at Washington's National Airport one afternoon last week for a no-passenger flight to Baltimore, he saw a pink puddle on the rug between the forward luggage compartments. Thinking it might be hydraulic fluid, he put his finger in it, put the finger to his nose, and sniffed. It was not hydraulic fluid so he wiped his finger on his uniform and forgot about...
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong has been just about everywhere. But CBS Telecaster Edward R. Murrow discovered one place he had missed: the land of his ancestors, Central Africa. The entertainment possibilities were just too colorful to miss, so CBS shelled out some $25,000 to send Armstrong, his five-man All-Stars and a camera crew to the city of Accra, the Gold Coast, for a three-day junket. The results were as good as expected. "After all," explained Louis, "my descendants came from here...