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...heirs are making other changes. They insisted that Burger add six outside members, including RCA's President John L. Burns and Westinghouse's Chairman Gwilym Price, to the 14-man A. & P. board, though Burger still dominates it. One task: finding a successor to Burger...
...rank. At year's end Westinghouse, whose "Shape of Tomorrow" pushed its sales of major appliances up 15% v. a 4% drop for the industry, rewarded Executive Vice President Mark W. Cresap Jr., 47, one of "Shape's" prime movers, with the presidency; longtime Boss Gwilym Price remained chairman. Every industry looked for new competitive talent. To exploit new markets at home, John L. Burns, 49, took over at Radio Corp. of America as Frank Fosom neared retirement; with more exploration abroad, William Whiteford stepped up to replace Gulf Oil's retiring Boss Sidney A. Swensrud...
...Specht, Crucible Steel's Joel Hunter, Firestone's Raymond C. Firestone, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr., Motorola's Robert W. Galvin, Radio Corp. of America's John L. Burns, Tidewater Oil's D. T. Staples, Westinghouse's Gwilym A. Price...
...brother Gwilym Lloyd-George (the only member of the family who hypbenates) slipped away from the Liberals to join forces with the Tories in 1951, now sits in the House of Lords as Viscount Tenby of Bulford. Megan's elder brother, Richard, who inherited his father's peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, rarely attends the House of Lords and says, "I'm thankful I'm not a politician...
Against him, nervous and unhappy in his role, was Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd-George (son of the late great World War I Prime Minister), whose position under the Queen gives him the final say in matters of criminal life or death. Himself once an ardent abolitionist, Lloyd-George lowered his eyes like a man condemned, as he outlined the government's position. "In taking life," he said, "the state performs its most solemn function . . . There can be no Home Secretary who would not be thankful to be relieved of this terrible burden. [But] if there is reason to think...