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...demonstrated that he needs none. "I have always operated lean," said Ribicoff, talking economy. He wanted no lawyer on his staff either: "After all, that's what I am." He added modestly: "If possible, I would like to have an economist in my office." South Dakota. Joseph Jacob Foss, 39, who won the Medal of Honor as a Marine fighter pilot for shooting down 26 Japanese planes, becomes the youngest governor in South Dakota's history this week, and invited everybody to his inauguration: "Come as you are." Easygoing Joe Foss decided to go into politics during...
After the war, Joe Foss turned down big-business offers ("I didn't want to be a dancing bear") to stay home in Sioux Falls, living with his family in a converted barracks (they now have three children...
Barely defeated in 1950, he won easily last November. He has "no special program in mind" and no special problems in sight. Generally, South Dakotans are prosperous, have tucked away an average of $3,000 each in Government savings bonds alone. Says Joe Foss: "I didn't make any campaign promises I can't keep...
...Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas E. (for Edward) Wilson, one of Chicago's most durable executives, finally decided to retire at 85, after 66 years in the meatpacking business. Into the chairmanship went Wilson's redhaired, Princeton-educated son, Edward Foss Wilson, 48, president since 1934. Wilson's new president and chief executive officer: trim (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) James D. Cooney, 60, a country lawyer turned corporation counsel, who joined Wilson in 1926. Educated at the University of Iowa, Cooney learned to fly in World War I, later hung out his shingle at West Union...
...still thrive on the standard 17th and 18th Century repertory, but the quartet has found some listeners eager for modern cacophonies and "deeper stuff," adds a smattering here & there of late Beethoven, Bartok and Schoenberg. Four U.S. composers whose music has been added to the repertory this year: Lukas Foss, Quincy Porter, Walter Piston and Samuel Barber. Television? Not yet, says Spokesman Schneider. "Why would people want to sit in the living room and see only four men sitting on chairs pulling bows? But gradually TV will take the place of radio. People will not want to be without chamber...