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...week's end a tumultuous convention in the government-owned Manila Hotel gave complete power to a Magsaysay-controlled executive committee to select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced...
...dilute Publication Corp.'s share in Crowell-Collier to as low as 6.5%, thus end its working control. If all goes well at a special stockholders' meeting next week, most of Crowell-Collier's old 17-man board will resign, to be replaced by a streamlined, nine-man board which will be controlled by the Elliott group. Smith left no question about who will then run Crowell-Collier: he has already been named "chief executive officer...
...rebels were five "outside directors" (non-Ward executives) on the nine-man board, all old friends of Avery. They were informally led by lean, leathery Philip Clarke, 65, chairman of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co., who had been trying for months to arrange an easy out for Avery. At 81, Avery's once fabulous memory had begun to fade: he "floated," as one friend put it, speaking confusedly but autocratically, brooking no correction...
...Names. Wolfson also named candidates Nos. 4 and 5 to his proposed nine-man slate of Ward directors (the first three: Wolfson himself; Robert Black president of the White Motor Co. : William J. Hobbs, onetime Coca-Cola president). One was topflight Advertising Woman Bernice Fitz-Gibbon of New York, the famed sloganeer who originated Macy's "It's smart to be thrifty," and "Nobody, but nobody undersells Gimbels." The other: E. W. Endter, risen-from-the-ranks president of California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced...
...were sweeping away a regime that represented to the majority of Japanese a decade of meek complaisance to the commands and suggestions of the U.S. occupiers. Yoshida was re-elected from his own Kochi district last week, and his former Foreign Minister ran a dramatically repudiated eighth in a nine-man race...