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For the past four months, U.S. business has known no more indefatigable head-hunter than David Karr, 44, onetime legman for Drew Pearson and then a public-relations man before he maneuvered himself into the corporate big time as guiding spirit of New York's Fairbanks Whitney Corp. Last...
Rarely has a corporation needed someone to run it and pull it together more than Fairbanks Whitney, a sprawling manufacturing complex that produces everything from industrial scales to Colt revolvers. The company was assembled eight years ago under the name Penn-Texas Corp. by German-born Financier Leopold Silberstein, who...
Neither the Yale nor the New Haven police were angered by the raid. Louis Fairbanks, night inspector of the Yale police forced, labeled it "good, clean fun." He offered to post bond from a fund to bail out Yale undergraduates.
∙ Revolving doors would come in handy at the Manhattan executive suites of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., the widely diversified and often troubled manufacturer of heavy machinery. Last spring Executive Committee Chairman Alfons Landa and two vice presidents quit amid reports of angry board room battles for control of the company...
As out-of-town tryouts go, it was way, way out. By coastal steamer, narrow-gauge railway and bus, Comedian Bert Lahr, 66, and a Broadway cast trekked up to Dawson City in the Yukon-4,700 miles from the Great White Way-for an eight-week run of Foxy...