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Truman Gibson, winner of the prestigious Medal for Merit for his services as civilian aide in the War Department in World War II. still has plenty of power over a boxer's future: he is president of National Boxing Enterprises, Inc. of Illinois (successor to the I.B.C.), which puts on TV's Wednesday-night fights. "I was picked up and handled like a murderer," complained Gibson after his arrest in Chicago. As for Jordan, he was taking the whole affair in stride. When newsmen finally caught up with the champ, he was hanging around with none other than...
...Lawrence Alan Tisch, 36, president of Tisch Hotels, Inc. and largest stockholder in Loew's Theatres (15%), was elected a Loew's director and chairman of its finance committee. Brooklyn-born Larry Tisch, a New York University graduate ('42), and his brother Robert, 33, own the largest chain of U.S. resort hotels (seven with 2,800 rooms, including Miami Beach's Americana and Atlantic City's Traymore), now worth $60 million. They started with a $175,000 investment in Lakewood, NJ.'s Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in 1946. Tisch started buying into Loew...
Automatic Window. A jalousie window that opens by pushing a button and closes by pulling a pendant was introduced by Universal Fabricators, Inc. The mechanism eliminates the customary crank turning. Price: about...
Copying Machine. A desk-size machine that reproduces documents on ordinary instead of specially treated paper will be introduced by Haloid Xerox, Inc. early next year. Fixing dry ink permanently into paper, the Xerox 914 turns out reproductions up to 9 by 14 in. at the rate of six a minute. Rent: $95 a month...
...Purpose Telephone. A telephone-answering gadget that answers calls, records and transmits the messages over the phone when called by the owner, will be put on sale in the U.S. by Code-a-Phone Electronics Inc. Operating on transistors, the device records any number of messages up to an hour in length each, also enables the owner to listen in on calls without the caller's knowledge, thus decide whether to talk or let the recorder take a message. Rent: $28 a month...