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SHERWOOD HARRY EGBERT WHEN Studebaker-Packard Corp.'s new 6-ft. 4-in., 210-lb. president arrived in South Bend 2½ months ago, the city hung a sign over the streets proclaiming: "Welcome Sherwood Egbert." The townsfolk did not know Egbert but they knew very well that as Studebaker goes, so goes South Bend. And Studebaker is not going well; it has produced only 14,000 cars in 1961 v. 37,000 by this time last year. Inside the grimy plant, old hands had serious misgivings about how good the new driver would be, since...
Edward Roscoe (baptized Egbert Roscoe) Murrow, Director of the U.S. Information Agency. North Carolinian Murrow's apocalyptic voice and Delphic punditry first gained force during his CBS ''THIS . . . is London" newscasts during World War II. As CBS's top commentator, and later as a director and vice president in charge of news and special events, he lent the same organ-toned quality to such TV shows as Person to Person and See It Now (both programs have since been dropped). Because of apparent differences on policy with the network brass, he took a sabbatical...
...Paine Hall Tuesday evening at the conclusion of Egbert Fischer's piano recital expected any encores, and for good reason: absolutely nothing can follow a program consisting of the monumental last three Beethoven Sonatas. Indeed, few pianists have the courage--one might say the audacity--to offer such a program, for these are extremely difficult works, not only for their many technical intricacies, but for the many problems of musical interpretation they offer. Mr. Fischer, a Cleveland pianist and a Harvard alumnus, put himself to this ultimate test--and the result was a recital that was curiously uneven, both technically...
Like the automakers, the motorboat makers are shifting away from yesteryear's jukebox styling. The 1959 models have toned-down colors, trimmed-down fins, less chrome. There are also fewer extra-cost gadgets. Said President Sherwood Egbert of the Outboard Motor Manufacturers' Association: "Instead of bringing out a huge array of new accessories, we have settled down to making our product more reliable, cheaper to operate...
...Murrow of today with his saturnine good looks [TIME, Sept. 30] has always been a favorite of mine. But your cut of Egbert Murrow, aged 5, with a look of truculent determination, has won me over completely...