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...less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered a low-keyed address saluting American trade unionists as "the living proof that Marx was wrong...
...Herman C. (for Christian) Nolen, 54, was elected president of McKesson & Robbins. Inc., world's largest wholesaler of drugs and liquors (Martin's V.V.O., Highland Queen), to succeed George Van Gorder, 60, who remains board chairman and chief executive. Nolen, son of a Muskegon, Mich, physician, was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Wisconsin (class of '22), worked his way up to production superintendent of Continental Motors Corp., then left business to take a Ph.D. in 1937 at Ohio State University. His doctoral thesis (Study of Chain Store Merchandising Methods and Selling) established...
David C. Baum of Winthrop and Highland Park, I11.; Clinton K.L. Ching of Dunster and Honolulu; Warren K. Cooper of Cambridge; and David M. Dorsen of Lowell and New York City...
...orphaned son of a Scottish millowner and largely self-taught in art, had developed his own technique of painting to the point where, in the eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist Sir Walter Scott. With complete self-assurance Raeburn painted them all. In nearly...
...carrier boys." On the day of the mass meeting, Clarksburg businessmen bought 2,000 of the Fairmont papers, gave them away free. Since then the West Virginian and the Fairmont Times have been sending 1,000 papers a day to Clarksburg. But at week's end Publisher Highland had still taken no notice of the biggest story in his territory...