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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...J. CAMERON BROWN
...TERRENCE J. MCBRIDE...
Died. Jack Norton (real name: Mortimer J. Naughton), 69, who was known to millions through his role on stage (Ziegfeld Follies, Earl Carroll's Vanities) and screen (The Farmer's Daughter, The Fleet's In) as a staggering drunk, usually in top hat and tails; of a respiratory ailment; at Saranac Lake...
...later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast to coast. Buster still consults with his father but has run his own show since taking over as chief executive officer...
...mankind the 200-selection machine. This year the sound in Seeburg's gaudy new juke is stereophonic. To the jukebox industry, the new sound is only a little newer than the two young men who call the tune for Seeburg: President Delbert W. Coleman and Board Chairman Herbert J. Siegel. The corporation (fiscal 1958 sales: about $25 million) makes not only jukeboxes but most of Western Union's facsimile equipment, plus key electronic components for the Nike and Sidewinder missiles. Two years ago, at the ripe ages of 31 and 28, Coleman and Siegel got control of Seeburg...