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Four years ago, the National Council of Churches, which still owns the RSV's copyright and last year collected $190,000 in royalties on its sales, began looking around for additional publishers. Of the five new firms, only Philadelphia's A. J. Holman Co. will battle Nelson in the field of expensive pulpit Bibles. The other companies all claim to have some feature all to themselves...
Died. Eugene Holman, 67, a ruddy-faced geologist whose candid charm and matchless knack for developing new oilfields took him to the top of the world's biggest oil company, Standard...
...impatient young Negroes disagreed. And in Atlanta last year, when J. Lowell Ware, a Negro proprietor of a printing plant, proposed to Negro college students in Atlanta that they start a paper with his facilities, the Inquirer was born. In as editor, after two trial issues, went Carl Holman, 42, professor of English at Atlanta's Negro Clark College...
...commercial success eludes the Inquirer, it is mainly because Editor Holman and Publisher Ware do not care. The paper accepts ads, but none from downtown Atlanta merchants who have not integrated their stores. The Inquirer is unalterably geared to the relentless campaign of the Southern Negro for equal rights on every score. "When people say a story should be suppressed 'for the good of the community,' " says Carl Holman, "what they usually mean is peace at any price. We just don't believe in that...
...into a topnotch operating company won him the post of president of Esso Standard in 1944. He moved on to Jersey Standard's board of directors in 1949, became president in 1954, and took over as chairman of the executive committee and chief executive in 1960 when Eugene Holman resigned. "Getting along is the key to success," says Rathbone. "I've always been fortunate in being able to get people to work with...