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...charm, a ring of earnestness in his voice, and an articulateness that makes him an ideal spokesman for the company. As the grandson of a man whose every pronouncement used to be Page One and free advertising, Henry has worked hard at his own role as the headline-winning industrialist. He has the pragmatic common sense of his grandfather, his father's even temper. Like Old Henry, he reads little. He is a "tell it to me" man who learns by ear, and has his grandfather's same sharp-eyed way of looking about him and asking, "What...
...there were signs that some winds were blowing Rab Butler's way. "We are getting out of our immediate difficulties," said Stephen Burman, a Midlands industrialist, last week, "and we can retrieve our place as a leading world power if we get down to it. But we have had life too easy; there has been a safety-first attitude . . . Every year I send a manager either to the Continent or to the U.S. to look for the best machinery for the job we do ... but many others are in a rut and won't follow the lead...
Died. Schuyler Merritt, 99, industrialist, nine-term (until 1936) Republican Congressman from Connecticut, and oldest Yale graduate (class of 1873); in Stamford, Conn. He campaigned for an express highway cutting through heavily traveled Connecticut, finally got a 37-mile, $21 million, landscaped toll road which opened in 1938 as the Merritt Parkway...
...member (and eventually chairman) of the Civil Service Commission: Philip Young, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Business. A registered Republican, Young is the son of Industrialist Owen D. Young (onetime Democratic elder statesman who supported Eisenhower last year). Squarejawed, stubborn Dean Young has the reputation of selecting able associates. He is a sailing enthusiast, a maker (and smoker) of fine briar pipes, and he has been called the best square-dance caller in New York's Herkimer County. The President said that Young would be elevated to Civil Service chairmanship as soon as the Senate confirmed...
...year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen and currently undisputed prima donna of Italian opera, signed a contract last month to make her U.S. debut in La Traviata at the Metropolitan. Last week she canceled the contract. Reason: a clause which provided that her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an industrialist, would make the trip with her. The clause could not be fulfilled, despite the efforts of Met-Manager Rudolf Bing. The U.S. Consulate in Venice refused to give Giovanni a visa on the grounds that he could not prove intention to return to Italy...