Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among them: Contralto Marian Anderson, Cellist Pablo Casals, Educator James B. Conant, Virologist John F. Enders, Justice (retired) Felix Frankfurter, Inventor (Polaroid camera) Edwin H. Land, Bankers Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy, Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Steelman Clarence B. Randall, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Photographer Edward Steichen, Authors E. B. White, Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson, and Painter Andrew Wyeth...
...Among them: Robert Anderson, a Texan who was Dwight Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary and is now a limited partner of Wall Street's Loeb, Rhoades; George Brown, president of Houston's Brown & Root, one of the world's largest building contractors; and Manhattan's Edwin Weisl, a wealthy corporate lawyer and Johnson's campaign co-manager in his 1960 bid for the presidency. Such men will doubtless have their say, but so will Walter Heller, whose personal memos kept Johnson informed of Kennedy economic policies. Johnson admires Heller and, unless Heller chooses to return...
...protégé is Goodyear's present chairman, Edwin Joel Thomas, 64, who came to Goodyear as a part-time clerk when he was 17 and began taking over active management under Litchfield 19 years ago. A solidly built, balding man with unfailing memory and considerable charm, Thomas is responsible for Goodyear's modern diversified look, runs the company in tandem with President Russell De Young, 54, an up-from-the-ranks production expert who is heir apparent. "It was like getting the first olive out of the bottle," says Thomas. "Doing research on tires, we found...
...EDWIN T. BOHR...
...Overboard. Now that his newest brainchild has proved such a prodigy, Sonar Engineer Edwin Turner, 64, plans to deliver two prototypes to the Navy for further trials and then retire. He stresses that Doppler sonar is a supplement, not a replacement for radar and other modern navigational aids. It can function properly only in well-charted waters or far at sea, where the course picked out by its pen is not likely to run into unexpected obstacles. The Navy already has a built-in need for such a device on many of its ships, and along the world...