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Died. Westbrook Van Voorhis, 64, the voice on the March of Time radio, movie and TV documentaries from 1931 to 1953 when the Time Inc. shows ended; of cancer; in New Milford, Conn. A colleague once said that Van Voorhis' delivery sounded "like the voice of God." His authoritative style set the tone for a generation of radio newsmen, and his "Time marches on" put a new phrase into the language...
...Michigan State University ('51) and the U.S. Marine Corps ('51-'53). Meyers moves into a job of steadily increasing responsibility and complexity. Under his predecessor, Robert C. Gordon, who has been promoted to vice president in charge of advertising sales and promotion for all Time Inc. publications, TIME moved from total advertising revenues of $55 million in 1961 to $111 million in 1967. TIME now carries more advertising pages annually than any other weekly magazine. Its ad income is twice that of any other newsmagazine...
Just over a year ago, Chairman Robert Elton Brooker of Montgomery Ward & Co. reached out for a major diversification in his effort to end Wards' long streak of low profits-and was rebuffed. Stockholders of Los Angeles-based MSL Industries Inc., with $116 million per year in sales of everything from industrial fasteners to electronic components, rebelled at fusing their young manufacturing company with a troubled old retailer. Last week Brooker found another possible partner, and this time his prospects looked a lot brighter...
Also expanding in a big way is Interbank Card Inc., a network of locally issued but interchangeable charge cards that went into operation nine months ago, now includes 450 participating banks in as many as 21 states. About 40% of Interbank's 8,000,000 members hold so-called Master Charge cards, jointly issued by banks in California, Nevada, Utah and Washington; the rest hold a variety of cards issued by other banks. Next year three leading New York City banks— Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank New York Trust and Marine Midland Grace Trust -will introduce Master Charge...
Lindbergh wired tiny Ryan Airlines, Inc. in February 1927. The answer was yes, and Hall, Ryan's only engineer, was as good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage...