Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcing the reading, Lyon Phelps. President of the Poets' Theatre, said that Thomas left his family with "no money...
After a visit to Pope Pius XII, Cardinals Feltin of Paris, Lieénart of Lille and Gerlier of Lyon announced a conditional reprieve for the French worker-priest program recently suspended by the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 28). Hereafter, worker-priests will be attached to parishes or traditional communities of priests, will no longer work full time at secular jobs-thus minimizing the chance that some of them, living by themselves in Red-tinted industrial areas, will be led astray by the Communism they set out to fight...
Through the big doorways of a white auditorium at Claremont, Calif, (pop. 7,000) one day last week, the presidents of three thriving colleges-E. Wilson Lyon of coeducational Pomona, Frederick Hard of Scripps College (for women) and George Benson of Claremont Men's College-filed in solemn procession for a special ceremony. As they do every two years, the three were meeting to proclaim which of them would serve as next provost of a fourth college, the Claremont Graduate School. This year, it happened to be President Hard's turn to take over; but the ceremony itself...
...President's Chief of Staff, Fleet Admiral William Leahy; on Feb. 26: War Department G-2 (later Chief of Air Staff) Lieut. General Hoyt Vandenberg; on March 5: Treasury Secretary (later U.S. Chief Justice) Fred Vinson; on March 15: the chief State Department security officer. Fred Lyon. Brownell also produced a note from the FBI, which accompanied Tom Clark's copy of the second report on White. Said the note: "... I have taken the liberty to similarly inform Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan ... of the information with respect to White...
...Both Al Lyon and Joe Cullman have achieved phenomenal growth for their companies with opposite selling techniques. Lyon used plenty of noise in his ads (little Johnny's annoyingly unforgettable cry) and bold slogans ("No Cigarette Hangover"). Cullman was content to push Parliaments with dignified understatements ("removes much of the tar-keeps all loose bits of tobacco from reaching your lips") and snob appeal. Both approaches worked. Since Lyon became president in 1945 he has pushed Philip Morris sales from $185 million to $315 million last year, its profits from $6,800,000 after taxes to $11.3 million. Since...