Word: gruen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College sophomore running to the Charles yesterday, collided with a moving automobile, and was rushed to Stillman Infirmary in an ambulance. At Stillman, John J. Gruen '57 of Adams House and Hollywood, Calif., was treated for a dislocated shoulder...
...Gruen was injured at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Sts. He ran into a '55 Oldsmobile operated by Thomas S. McIntyre, a Watertown resident. The Olds was dented in two places...
...subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms, e.g., "Cherry Coke Wexla," "James Jake Ivan Wechsler," "New York Post's General Pinko," and "Pinko Punko." In reply, the Post and Wechsler brought a $1,525,000 libel suit against Winchell, his sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), Hearst Corp., King Features Syndicate and American Broadcasting Co. (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952). This week, in settlement of the suit, Winchell issued the most abject retraction of his career. Because of his trouble over this and other libel suits, he also broke off his $12,500-a-week...
...Communists. On Winchell's Sunday-night broadcast, the announcer read the retraction: "Walter Winchell has authorized ABC and Gruen Watch Co. Inc. to state that he never said or meant to say over the air or in his newspaper columns that the New York Post or its publisher or Mr. James A. Wechsler are Communists or sympathetic to Communism. If anything Mr. Winchell said was so construed, he regrets and withdraws it. The American Broadcasting Co. and Gruen, also, wish to retract any statement, which were subject to such construction...
...Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became a salesman, and rose to be general merchandising manager. He expects to boost 1954 sales of nearly $10 million by 20% by being "a lot more aggressive." ¶ Edward H. Weitzen. 35, was elected president of Cincinnati's Gruen Watch Co., succeeding Morris Edwards, who resigned. A graduate of City College of New York ('38), Weitzen worked for a Manhattan ad agency, the Journal of Commerce. He became a buck private in 1942, was soon commissioned, rose to lieutenant colonel at 26. He joined Bulova Watch...