Word: logan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Logan Truax Johnston, 60, was elected president and chief executive officer of Armco Steel Corp., succeeding Ralph Larrabee Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth...
...Charging like an affronted rhino, Gene Fullmer, 28, roughhoused flustered Challenger Spider Webb, 28, around the ring in Logan, Utah, to win a unanimous decision, keeping the middleweight championship of the National Boxing Association (recognized by all states but New York and Massachusetts, which still hold Sugar Ray Robinson champion...
...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
...every time he drove along Highway 280 to visit his in-laws in Savannah. To both Carl and Elizabeth Hadden Sills, Plains looked like the kind of place where they wanted to settle. In the middle of an April night, they broke a Savannah-Jackson journey, talked to Dr. Logan and James Carter, 35, the town's biggest businessman. Assured that there was plenty of scope to build a practice and that the townspeople would cooperate, the Sillses soon made their decision...
...other planes, likewise loaded with scientists, students, and photographers, left Logan Airport around 6 a.m. The University group flew in a DC-6 provided by Northeast Airlines; Dean Bundy, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, head of the Department of Astronomy and Donald H. Menzel, Director of the University Observatory, headed the Harvard contingent in its expedition upward...