Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEE JAMES BEYNON JR. First Baptist Church...
Mutual's other owners (each with 20%) were the West Coast Don Lee network, the Chicago Tribune, Macy's department store, and a group of smaller investors...
...Neil swung a $12 million deal for the Don Lee network with its 45 Western radio stations. A year later, he got control of Manhattan's WOR and WOR-TV by buying out Macy's interest, and later got control of Mutual. At the same time, General Tire had been merging all its radio-TV holdings, which became General Teleradio in 1952, with Tom O'Neil as president of the new company. Says his father: "That Tom, he makes money...
...Warren Lee Pierson, 58, succeeded Belgium's Camille Gutt as president of the International Chamber of Commerce. Globe-hopping board chairman of Trans World Airlines since 1947, Pierson has been an effective advocate of lower tariffs and reciprocal trade as head of the ICC's United States Council. He was a World War I artillery lieutenant in France, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1922, served the Government as RFC counsel (1933)) president of the Export-Import Bank (1936-44), and U.S. delegate to the 1951-52 conference on Germany's $6 billion foreign debt. As 17th...
...William Lee Sims II, 58, was elected president of Colgate-Palmolive Co., succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 49, who resigned (TIME, May 16) and joined Reynolds Metals Co. as general counsel and director. Alabama-born, Sims went to work for Colgate as a salesman in 1924, started the company's Italian subsidiary in 1927, three years later took charge of Colgate's ten European subsidiaries. In 1940 Sims was named assistant to President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president...