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...College weekends have been held here before, but this marks the first time in Harvard's history that all the Houses, and the Yard will stage simultaneous celebrations. Close to 2,000 people will participate in the varied and far-flung affairs of Friday night...
Brown runs his far-flung operation from a seven-room, $100-a-month house in Brussels, where he lives with his Berlin-born wife Lillie, a Hunter College graduate, and their nine-year-old son. Brown talks to perhaps 75 callers in his 14-hour day, including Russian exiles, contacts inside Communist Parties, European politicians and American MSA officials. He earns $8,750 a year, runs his operation on less than $2,000 a month, has carefully doled out more than $500.000 of A.F.L. money. His staff consists of only two secretaries and a young assistant...
...Fashioned Pioneer. Bob Wood runs his far-flung empire and 199,700 employees with furious energy. He stores away facts like an electronic thinker and concentrates on problems with the intensity of a stargazer. When concentrating, he often pops caramels into his mouth without thinking to take off the wrappers, has been known to eat the paper frills off lamb chops. Once, in a comparatively relaxed mood, Wood was playing cards with his son when the carpet caught fire from a live coal. Wood never noticed the flames, though they were right before his eyes...
...president of I.B.M., Tom Jr. sits at the head of a far-flung world empire of 485 sales managers, 366 offices and 17 plants. The company's sales and rentals have increased fourfold between 1941 and 1950. Earnings after taxes in 1950 were $33.3 million, or $12.05 Per share. In 1951 they increased an estimated 20% more...
...supply were delivered by Railway Express, frequently using crack passenger trains. Meanwhile, a few thousand newsstand copies were being flown to posts in Canada and Alaska and pilots were flying copies of the Latin American, Atlantic or Pacific Editions to six continents and over five seas to all the far-flung places where TIME is read...