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...killed Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. He earned pocket money as a newsboy, later as a cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. In high school he spent summers as a call-boy waking up railroaders for the S.P., did odd jobs as a freight hustler and farm hand, learned to play the clarinet in the school band. He still carries a card in the musicians' union...
Last week, CBS presented him as a radio star in a new program tailored to his short, (5 ft. 2 in.), explosive measure. "Shorty Bell" (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), "a novel written especially for the air," is a continued story about a tough young newspaper circulation hustler who would give his brass knuckles to be a reporter...
...rejuvenate the Monon, the trustees last year brought in a new president, John W. Barriger III. Barriger, a stocky, cheerful hustler, had been an assistant yardmaster for the Pennsylvania, railroad analyst for Kuhn, Loeb & Co., adviser to RFC, and operator for about a year of the strikebound Toledo, Peoria & Western (TIME, May 18, 1942). He had some young ideas for Monon, and he put them into effect as he traveled over the Monon in his business car (purchased secondhand from the Southern Pacific in 1887). As a result, when the Monon celebrates its 100th anniversary this week, it will...
Last week Massey-Harris got a rejuvenating shot in the arm. The man who administered it was Toronto's Edward Plunkett Taylor, 46, a round-faced, blue-eyed hustler who is Canada's No. 1 industrialist. Taylor went into Massey-Harris five years ago as a director. By last week he and his associates had bought up 35% of Massey-Harris common stock-and control. First thing that Taylor did was reorganize the board of directors, bringing in such energetic new members as Quebec's shipping magnate Joseph Simard. Said Eddie Taylor: "We plan to increase [production...
...Presbyterian minister, Dr. Houston was a college physics teacher at 20, a full professor at Cal Tech at 31, at 34 the author of a definitive text in mathematical physics. For several years during the 'war he worked on anti-submarine devices at Columbia University. No backslapping endowment hustler, Physicist Houston intends to continue his own researches (spectroscopy, the structure of solvents), to stiffen Rice's entrance requirements, and to keep sports a college sideline. Says he: "Football should serve principally to provide necessary physical relaxation." His first big task: to get the people of Houston (who pronounce...