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Geneen, but in 1959, chafing under Adams' unwillingness to give him the presidency, Geneen jumped to I.T.&T. Upping his price, Adams next brought in. from Ford, lean, genial Richard Krafve (rhymes with taffy), 54, and soon set up a "tandem management" arrangement under which Krafve, as president, and Adams, as chairman, shared control of the company with neither having the final say. Explained Krafve: "If we were that far apart, one of us would just have to go." Last week, finding himself that far apart, Krafve resigned, leaving Adams to reassume the presidency. The reason: a series...
Died. Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, 90, genial, imaginative Biblical scholar who in 1923 produced one of the first translations of the New Testament in modern English (The New Testament: An American Translation), continued his lifelong crusade to distill clear 20th century meaning from archaic Biblical language with a steady flow of books and essays (How to Read the Bible, A Life of Jesus); of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
Anti-Dutch Aloha. For all Sukarno's impassioned denunciations of Dutch "imperialism," in The Netherlands last week indignation was mainly directed at the U.S. and Ambassador Jones. A competent diplomat who has spent five years in Indonesia and has become deeply attached to the country, genial, guitar-twanging Howard Jones, 63, is an effusive admirer of Sukarno's oratory. Says he: "He's the greatest public speaker I've heard since William Jennings Bryan." After one of Sukarno's inflammatory anti-Dutch orations during his East Indonesia swing, Jones was introduced to the crowd...
...genial general, whose uniform of the day is a tweedy sports coat and slacks, Spivey has raised faculty salaries, doubled scholarships, banished Sunday reveille and the pseudo-military titles (for example, "captain" for assistant instructor) that cadets formerly used to address their teachers. He even did away with marching to classes, but so far has kept the student uniform (royal blue jacket, grey trousers) as standard campus dress...
Died. Moss Hart, 57, peerless creator of Broadway and Hollywood classics, a genial, satanic-looking genius who wrote 22 plays (including 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner You Can't Take It with You) and directed eleven (including My Fair Lady and Camelot); of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. The son of an impoverished cigarmaker, Hart broke into the entertainment business as a social director on New York's "borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including...