Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marching Saints. By helicopter, Ike swung down to the deck of the U.S. Cruiser Des Moines, flagship of Vice Admiral George W. Anderson Jr.'s Sixth Fleet. On his cruise through the Mediterranean, the President finally got a chance to unwind. He slipped into a sports coat and slacks, watched an after-dinner movie, turned in early, slept one night for nine hours...
...effect stems from the fact that he is the Times critic and part from his own reputation built through the years. "Half our lives,'' says Broadway Producer David Merrick (Fanny, La Plume de Ma Tante), "depend on a good review from Atkinson." Says Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. (J.B.): "In terms of influence, Brooks is worth any four of the other critics." These awed testimonials go to a man who shifts uneasily beneath the burden of his influence ("Power bothers me; I'd rather not have it"), and who says he got into drama criticism for purely...
...Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad to Hawaii for any letter or document written to or by Franklin. They have amassed more than 27,000 photocopies of manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts...
...join him in buying Scientific American, about all the three got for their $40,000 were 5,000 solid subscribers, a Manhattan office and a lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing to test it. In the dawn light of the technological revolution, Piel clearly foresaw the rise of a new breed of technological man. It was his conviction that a magazine beamed at this burgeoning breed would grow right along with...
...general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth in the industry in sales and profits although it ranks eighth in capacity. ¶John Clark Jr.. 44, will become president of Technicolor Inc., succeeding a company founder. Dr. (of Physics) Herbert T. Kalmus, 78, who is retiring from active participation after 45 years with Technicolor, manufacturer of most of the nation's color-movie prints. Indiana-born, Columbia-educated ('34) Clark joined Technicolor...