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...county sewer project. He made $300 a year as a city councilman, but when he worked up to mayor, his pay dropped down to $100. He has so few political connections that state G.O.P. leaders were plugging two other New Jersey Republicans (Singer Manufacturing Co.'s President Milton Lightner and Investment Banker David Von Alstyne Jr.) for the Air Force job when Quarles was appointed. Last year by way of vacation, he took only a long weekend on Fire Island, where he worked building a flight of steps. He has never once reposed in his office contour lounge chair...
...embassy at Seoul, Counsellor Edwin Lightner Jr. led a State Department clique that disliked and derogated Korea's President Syngman Rhee. Last June, Lightner & Co. vainly tried to prevent Rhee's reelection, accusing the 77-year-old President of autocratic methods. Last week, in line with a policy of support for Rhee, Secretary John Foster Dulles ordered Lightner back home for reassignment...
With only an hour to spare, U. S. Charge d'Afairés Allan Lightner strode in to hand
...years Singer's sales and profits were a secret, and most of the stock was held by descendants of the company's founders and early executives. But after Singer President Douglas Alexander, who had bossed the company for 44 years, died in 1949, things changed. Milton C. Lightner, 61, who was born in Detroit and went to the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, stepped up after 21 years as a vice president, and let outsiders peek into the company's books. Even though its trade behind the Iron Curtain is closed, Singer in 1950 netted...
Lover's Choice. In Detroit, Mrs. Patricia J. Stephens won a divorce after testifying that her husband thought "it was very funny to kiss the dog, give me a pat on the head and walk out the door." In San Jose, Calif., the court granted Mrs. Marcia Lightner a divorce when she quoted her husband as saying "I love [my] horse more than any human in the world...