Word: founder
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WILLIAM F. BURKE JR. Founder and President National Psychiatric Reform Institute Altamont...
Sweeten the Benefits. When V. (for Vestor) J. Skutt took over the presidency of Mutual in 1949 from the late founder Dr. C. C. Criss, he set about building up-and drastically changing-the company. South Dakota-born Skutt studied law at Omaha's Creighton University, and in 1924 entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify...
...show business, palship never reigns but it pours. To a very few show folk-Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman-has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal, tearful affection. This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie...
Died. Timothy James Mara, 71, founder of the New York Football Giants, onetime Manhattan "betting commissioner" (i.e., bookie, when the practice was legal) who became one of the principal developers of pro football; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Vibrant, unassuming Alice is the daughter of Chicago Painter Ivan Albright and Josephine Medill Patterson, youngest daughter of the late Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News. Alice's Aunt Alicia Patterson, 52 (TIME Cover, Sept. 13, 1954), is 'the editor and publisher of Long Island's moneymaking, fast-growing tabloid Newsday (circ. 288,483). It is to Alice and her brother Joe, 21, a reporter on the Chicago Sun-Times, that Aunt Alicia may hand down important interests in Newsday, the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune...