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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart in a plastic bag on the stove. Around the house the police also found: ten skins of human heads, neatly separated from the skull; assorted pieces of human skin, some between the pages of magazines, some made into small belts, some used to upholster chair seats (the largest piece, rolled up on the floor, was the front upper section of a woman's torso); a box of noses...
Grey clouds scudded across the autumn sun, and the largest crowd (62,000) ever to watch a college football game in Oklahoma shuddered in an even greyer silence. Out there on the patchwork turf of the University of Oklahoma's stadium, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were doing the undoable. It was bad enough that they had the Sooners beaten, 7-0, that they were breaking the longest winning streak (47 games) in intercollegiate football history. Now, with less than two minutes to go they were firing long, dangerous passes in a bold try for another touchdown...
...Bowman Gray, 50, moved up from executive vice president to president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), second largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first: American Tobacco Co.). He succeeds Edward A. Darr, 67, who becomes vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee; Chairman John C. Whitaker remains as chief executive officer. Bowman Gray, older brother of Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray, began at Reynolds as a salesman in 1930 while his father was company president, became assistant sales manager in 1939, sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955. A chief stockholder...
...Geraldine Veronica ("Jerry") Stutz, 33, vice president since 1955 of I. Miller retail stores, 17-store subsidiary of General Shoe Corp., one of the world's largest shoe companies, was named president of Henri Bendel Inc., swank Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched...
...Adrain Robert Fisher, 62, president of Johns-Manville Corp., largest U.S. manufacturer of asbestos and fireproofing materials (1956 sales: a record $310,390,381), was named chairman and chief executive officer to succeed Leslie M. Cassidy, who retired. After graduating from Rutgers ('16) and working for two New Jersey manufacturers, he joined Johns-Manville in 1923 as superintendent of the asphalt-roofing department in its Waukegan, Ill. plant, soon moved to the managerial side as production executive, in 1951 became president (a post he will retain). Since the end of World War 11 the company has invested more than...