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Minor sports numerals--1954--to Geroge H. Anderson, Wellesley Hills; Richard W. Armstrong, Philadelphia; John W. Beer, New York City; Henry P. Briggs, Jr., Wellesely Hills; Griffith M. Buttrick, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Robert D. Carroll, West Newark, N. J.; Robert H. Dean, Wellesley Hills; Hichard D. Elwell, Cedarhurst, Pa.; Todd Goodwin, Rochester, N. Y.; George J. Hill 3rd, Brookline; Edmund Jacobson, Jr., Chicago; Stephen J. Joyve, Hillsdale, N. J.; Stanley R. Loeb, Forest Hills, N. Y.; Walter M. H. Noble, San Francisco; Charles A. Platt 2nd New York City; Kurt Pollak, Boston; Juan Mario Rodriquez, Vegots, Colombia; David...
...manpower and personnel. No woman had ever before held such a job in the manly precincts of the Pentagon. But Anna Rosenberg, said George Marshall, was "one of the country's outstanding experts-I believe the outstanding expert-on the subject of manpower." She succeeds bumbling Paul Griffith, who owed his job to Louis Johnson (both were ex-national commanders of the American Legion...
This week Munitions Board Chairman Hubert Howard, who had done his best to step up lagging stockpile procurement in his short first year (see BUSINESS), became the first Johnsonite to resign from the Defense Department. Most likely to follow: Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Griffith and Special Assistant Brigadier General Louis Renfrew, both old Johnson cronies...
...Died. Griffith Baily Coale, 60, muralist and author (North Atlantic Patrol: The Log of a Seagoing Artist), marine camouflage artist in World War I, an official U.S. Navy artist in World War II; of a heart attack; in Stonington, Conn...
...rumor that cropped up most frequently in Hollywood during the past decade was that United Artists Corp., once one of the most profitable of Hollywood companies, would be sold. U.A. was set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. (Birth of a Nation) Griffith to distribute films made independently by each of the partners. Now Fairbanks and Griffith were dead, Mary Pickford made no pictures and Chaplin almost none. All that the company had to offer a prospective buyer was a famous name and a system of 32 film distribution exchanges...