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...years as head of Hartford's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., brilliant, caustic Frazar Bullard Wilde, 66, has boosted his company's premium income 1,000% (to $464 million a year), v. an insurance-industry average increase of 500%. Six years ago, invoking a state law that bars a life company from selling casualty insurance, New York State officials blocked Wilde's efforts to broaden Conn Gen's business still more by buying a casualty company. Defiantly, Wilde hired Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and in a five-year legal battle won the right to control...
...Chairman of the commission is Frazar B. Wilde, chairman of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Among the members: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Chairman James B. Black; First Security Corp. Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Anderson, Clayton & Co. Chairman Lamar Fleming Jr.; Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler; Federated Department Stores Chairman Fred Lazarus Jr.; Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller; A.F.L.-C.I.O. Research Director Stanley Ruttenberg; American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles B. Shuman; Bank of America Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Ford Motor Co. Finance Committee Chairman Theodore O. Yntema...
...Well, in his race for a third term as Governor, it would sure be nice to be able to pose as a martyr, to be able to claim that the durned legislature had adjourned without even giving him a chance to be heard. Explained Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, a staunch Longman: "The adjournment will earn him 100,000 votes...
...from succeeding himself in the big white Governor's mansion built by brother Huey, but last week paunchy Earl sprang plans for a brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...
Reaper. In Uvalde, Texas, the Leader-News cheered M. Watson Frazar's election as president of the Chamber of Commerce, pointed out that "evidence of Frazar's faith in the future of Uvalde is his new funeral home...