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...pals, from Hail Fellow Toots Shor to Toyman Louis Marx, went flying across the Pacific for the misty-eyed moment in Hawaii. There, at Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal...
...figuring their payrolls to giving advice on foreign investments. But nothing wins over the flinty-eyed treasurer like a better interest rate. "It's fantastic what some of them will do for a one-hundredth of one percent pickup in interest," says a Los Angeles banker. Adds President Emmett Solomon of San Francisco's Crocker-Anglo Bank: "The corporate treasurer is in the driver's seat...
...forth in a letter sent last week to three Washington newspapers. "What I saw at the District of Columbia Stadium," he said, "easily could have duplicated what I saw covering the Little Rock school desegregation case, or the bus station mob during the Freedom Rides to Birmingham, or the Emmett Till case in Mississippi. The difference, ironically, was that the predominant number of offenders were Negro. The explosion of hate stemmed mostly from my own people...
This remarkable finding, which runs directly counter to what every mother has ''known'' since babies were first fed a substitute for human breast milk, was reported last week by one of the most eminent of U.S. pediatricians, New York University's Dr. L. Emmett Holt Jr. Four years ago, Dr. John P. Gibson of Abilene, Texas, had come to a similar conclusion, from studying 150 normal, full-term babies. He got the idea from mothers who had forgotten to warm a bottle. Dr. Holt figured that he could put the idea to the acid test...
...handsomely furnished Fifth Avenue eyrie, Robert Emmett Lusk, 60, chairman of Benton & Bowles, is fighting to reverse a trend. Alone among the nation's top ten agencies, B. & B. last year suffered a loss in billings (from $120 million to $116 million). Lusk's answer has been a campaign to expand his agency from a specialist in advertising low-priced packaged goods to a general-purpose agency by lining up such accounts as Western Union and Mutual of New York. Lusk, a Connecticut machinist's son who worked his way through Yale ('23), rose...