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Bowles was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1948, and following his defeat in 1950, President Truman appointed him Ambassador to India and Nepal, where he developed a major Point Four program...
Chester Bowles, former Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, will visit Winthrop House on Dec. 9 through 11, David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop House, announced last night...
...Foods, Ohio Match Co.) began to acquire a controlling 35% interest in the widely held McCall stock. He reorganized the board in his favor, and last year startled Madison Avenue by bringing in Langlie as president. Puritanical, parsimonious Lawyer Langlie was a three-time (1941-45, 1949-57) Republican governor of Washington (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956), but a publishing amateur...
...assistant out of brash Stanley Frankel, 39, odd job and promotion man for Esquire and Coronet. Frankel promptly enraged the staff with a speech declaring that the editorial and advertising departments should cooperate more closely. When the astounded Wiese asked Langlie if he favored such a tie-in, the Governor said yes, added that Frankel was getting an office on the editorial side to keep an eye on things. With that, Wiese decided that it was time to quit, and the parade...
Married. Sir John Huggins, 67, retired British Governor in Chief of Jamaica (1943-51); and Margaret Hitchcock, 45, his first wife's dressmaker, with whom Sir John bolted to Italy last spring, bringing an end to both previous marriages (said Lady Huggins at the time: "My husband is a victim of the 3O-year itch"); in Alton, England...