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...business, went to work for the New York Times; in 1935 he succeeded the late great Adolph Ochs as president and publisher of the Times. Last week, in the same pattern, the tradition moved into another generation. Named the new president of the Times, succeeding Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was Orvil E. Dryfoos, 44, who married Sulzberger's daughter Marian in 1941, left his seat on the New York Stock Exchange to join the Times, became a vice president and director in 1954. Old Timesman Sulzberger, 65, becomes chairman of the board, continues as publisher and chief executive officer...
...Army Captains Orvil Anderson and Albert Stevens...
...Skyrocket passed altitude records: the top flight of jet planes (59,446 ft.); his own earlier records (secret). Finally he passed the highest of all: the record 72,395-ft. balloon flight of balloonists Captain Orvil A. Anderson* and the late Captain Albert W. Stevens in 1935. Just how high he got, the Navy would not say. Aviation gossip believes that the Skyrocket reached an altitude of more than 77,000 ft. (nearly 15 miles...
...medical adviser to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Retired after 40 years: Lieut. General Clarence R. Huebner, 62, blunt commander of the 1st Division, former commanding general, U.S. Army in Europe, who started his Army career as a private. The Air Force granted a retirement request from Major General Orvil A. Anderson, 55, relieved as commandant of the Air War College, after an interview in which he proposed a strike-first policy to "break up Russia's five A-bomb nests in a week...
...Secretary of Navy Matthews and Major General Orvil Anderson suffered prompt reprimands when they advocated...