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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago. A product of a Pennsylvania farm, Evans has found himself in difficult positions all his life (from trapping skunks as a boy to testing explosives as a soldier and a scientist). Recognized as a brilliant teacher and a foremost U.S. expert on explosives, Evans has retired twice, and is still working. In 1946 he retired as head of Northwestern University's chemistry department. Then, in 1947, at his country home near Lancaster, Pa., he received a wire asking him to join the staff at Loyola. He promised his wife...
...heavy-spending Achille Lauro, multimillionaire owner of a huge merchant shipping fleet, staunch friend of the late Benito Mussolini and now the popular mayor of Naples, was the party's nominal head and principal bankroller (about $3,000,000 in contributions). Ex-Professor (of law) Alfredo Covelli, an expert parliamentarian and a good organizer, was secretary-general and real leader of the Monarchists...
...well; but before that could happen, the lower house had to vote a two-day extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...
...nearly 30 years, Medieval Art Expert James J. Rorimer has been intrigued by the strange similarity of two superb 15th-century tapestries. In both of them, the same principal characters were prominently featured. Their borders were identical in design, and each had been restored along one side. But the two sections did not fit together, and Rorimer began to suspect that there was a missing middle section. Last year he found just what he was looking for in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Brought together, the three sections matched perfectly in design, color and thread count...
...James P. Falvey, 49, an expert on law and labor relations, was elected president and chief executive officer of Electric Auto-Lite Co., the world's biggest independent manufacturer of automobile electrical equipment (30 plants in the U.S. and Canada). Falvey is the complete opposite of his rugged, swashbuckling predecessor, Royce G. Martin (onetime paymaster for Pancho Villa), who died minutes after his horse Goyamo ran in the 1954 Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 10). Falvey joined Auto-Lite in 1934, when it bought out Moto-Meter Gauge and Equipment Corp., for which he was patent attorney. He built...