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Lined up against Chairman Weesner and four fellow Bon Ami officers was a formidable coalition: Tel-A-Sign Inc.. a Chicago billboard manufacturer which last month bought 16.5% (88,703 shares) of Bon Ami's outstanding stock, plus two former Bon Ami employees-ex-Vice President Olen Webb, 40. and his wife Pat, 44. who for more than ten years was Weesner's $12,000-a-year private secretary. Guided by Tel-A-Sign's largest stockholder. Attorney Roy Cohn, 35. onetime Boy Friday to the late Senator Joe McCarthy, the coalition charged that Weesner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Chick & the Macaw | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved by other reports that the Cleveland incident had been exaggerated. "Ralston's conduct on the court certainly is not angelic." said Olen Parks, who umpired the Cleveland match. "I do not approve of his attitude at all. But far too much is being made of this incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Menace Scratched | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...B.T.L. as a corporate shell, and went shopping. For $7,000,000 in cash he bought 38% working control of United Stores-which in turn controls the McCrory-McLellan chain of stores-from the H. L. Green chain, which was having its troubles. (Green had merged with Maurice Olen's chain of stores in the fall of 1958, but Olen has been charged with overstating his assets by some $4,000,000, now awaits trial for fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Rapid Riser | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...shocked to hear the news of a woman's being considered for ordination in the Lutheran Church. Britta Olen says she's going to Africa to preach the word of God [Oct. 13]; yet she is doing exactly what the Bible forbids-how is she going to explain this to the natives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...were they? Instead of a throng of putative priestesses, there seemed to be hardly any women who wanted the job; 75% of the 152 female theology students at Uppsala University were against having women in the pulpit. At week's end one candidate came forward-pretty, blonde Britta Olen, 30, daughter of a vicar and already fully qualified for ordination. Scheduled to be married by year's end and to do mission work in South Africa with her missionary husband, she hopes she will find a bishop to ordain her before she leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Female Clergy | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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