Word: founder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stella, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, 63, founder of the Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defense...
With deficits since 1952 and a loss last year of $1,000,000, the decision to sell the 118-year-old Times-Star was made reluctantly by Publisher David S. Ingalls, 59, lawyer, civic leader, grandson of Founder Taft, and manager of the late Senator Taft's 1952 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Only member of the Taft family opposing the sale was 80-year-old ex-Publisher Hulbert Taft. At the decisive meeting, the old man wept...
...forehandedly helped make the place particularly hot went off on a graciously appointed yachting cruise with his family to visit his old friend Tito at the marshal's isle of Brioni in the blue Adriatic. In that way, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, President and founder of the New United Arab Republic, could escape the heat built up by his subversive doings in Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business of how to run a revolution with Moscow's approbation and material help...
...Indispensability. The museum that Butler runs concentrates solely on American art; thanks largely to the $1,500,000 endowment of Founder Butler, it got in early on collecting U.S. paintings. Grandfather Butler spent 40 years tracking down his favorite painting for the collection: Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954). The Butler Institute today has 635 oils, 500 prints, 365 watercolors and drawings, including top works by John Singleton Copley, James Peale, William Harnett, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder-far more than enough to fill the two-story museum's nine galleries...
...Rush H. Kress, 81, ailing brother of the late founder of the 261-store S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-ten chain, was replaced as chairman by New Jersey Construction Executive Paul L. Troast,* a leader in the revolt of Kress Foundation directors that stripped Rush Kress of power (TIME, March 3). Command of the slipping company (sales slid from $176 million in 1952 to $159 million last year) will be shared by Troast, recently named President George L. Cobb and Executive Committee Chairman Frank M. Folsom. Their plan: sell off some of the chain's stores to raise...