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...Looked & Left." Owens came to Selma U. as president in 1956 after 26 years in education. Son of an Acme, N.C., factory fireman, he worked at railroad jobs to finance his chemistry and French studies at Richmond's Virginia Union University. He later earned a master's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College and for 13 years at Leland College in Baker, La., becoming its president. When he first saw Selma U., Owens recalls, "I looked, turned around and left." Then, after deciding that the president...
Died. John Breck Sr., 87, founder and chairman of the biggest U.S. shampoo-maker (15% of the market), a onetime Massachusetts fireman who started mixing chemicals in the early 1900s when his own hair began to thin, built his concoctions into a $28 million annual business with the help of one of the U.S.'s most distinctive ad campaigns, featuring for the past 25 years portraits of silken-haired blondes, most of whom were his own granddaughters and great-granddaughters; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...
...checked on the senior residents," Gates observed. He also mentioned that, since this drill is supposed to simulate the conditions of a real fire, someone should have told the fireman about a girl upstairs with a broken leg who is excused from "ordinary" drills...
...Joseph Kress, 44, a proud Navy mother in Dubuque, Iowa, walked into the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton...
Bright Future. Steinberg is also a vigorous fund raiser and public relations man, once promoted a concert by donning a fireman's helmet and red suspenders to tear around town on a fire engine, gaily clanging the fire bell. As a result, the Pittsburgh Symphony today enjoys a 30-week season, a budget of nearly $1,000,000, and a base of community support so broad that there has been some talk of rechristening it the Tri-State Symphony. Prospects for the future are exceptionally bright, thanks to a grant of $5,000,000 from Heinz and Mellon funds...