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...Angeles metropolitan area, with 6,290,000 now, is expected to pass Chicago in 1960 to become the second largest U.S. city...
...gift is the largest that has so far been contributed to the fund, surpassing by $500,000 the theatre gift by John L. Loeb '24 given in the spring of 1957. The donor would not divulge publicly any details of his gift...
...each other, and two (the B & O and the Lackawanna) own sizable chunks of other lines in the proposed merger (the Reading and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis). A merger of the seven roads would be bigger than either the Central or the Pennsy, the nation's largest road, and nearly as big as the proposed merger of the two. The seven roads together would have 19,050 miles of main track in ten states (including many duplicated facilities), compared with 12,800 miles owned by the Central and Pennsy, and total assets of $4.1 billion...
...Howard Stolpp Bunn, 58, executive vice president of Union Carbide Corp., second largest U.S. chemical company, became president, succeeding Morse G. Dial, 63, who moved up to chairman and continues as chief executive officer. A Philadelphia-born, Lehigh-educated ('20) chemist, Bunn is more salesman than scientist, has been executive vice president since 1955, is Dial's probable successor...
...Lewis Gruber, 63, president "since 1956 of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent, Newport), fourth largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first nine months' sales: $353 million), moved up to the vacant post of board chairman, but will continue as chief executive officer. Taking his place as president, and most probable successor to head Lorillard when Gruber retires in two years: Harold Francis Temple, 55, vice president and director of sales, who began as a salesman with Lorillard 30 years...