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...group in effecting an orderly transition.'' Young, who knew the result three days earlier (when it was also leaked to the press), wasted no time taking over the world's second biggest railroad. Less than an hour after the official count was announced, Young and Mrs. Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, a member of his directors' slate and co-owner of the Reader's Digest, marched out of his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building and walked the three blocks to the Park Avenue offices of the Central. There his group of directors...
...Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, 63, co-owner and co-editor with her husband DeWitt Wallace of Reader's Digest, has been added by Robert R. Young to his proposed slate of New York Central directors. If Young wins his battle for control of the Central, Mrs. Wallace will become the first woman director of a major U.S. railroad. Said she: "I think everything needs a woman's touch...
Joseph E. Bacigalupo '55 of 50 Lila Road, Jamaica Plain, was discovered unconscious in his room late last night by his father. A once-fired revolver lay beside...
...last meeting of the class, and every girl was on hand as the nominations for permanent president began. One name proposed filled the room with cheers: it was little (104 Ibs.) Lila June Rainey of Lexington, N.C., who had already been elected president of the student body and had run away with a host of undergraduate honors. The only other girl nominated quickly withdrew ("I'm not going to run against June"). June was elected by acclamation, and the meeting was about to break up, when one of the faculty advisers said: "May I say something...
...scholarship worked. "I have watched this scholarship grow," said she, "as I watched the girl grow with it." Then, turning to the most popular member of the class, she broke the secret. "The girl who received it is the girl you have just elected your everlasting president-Lila June Rainey...