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...pioneer bank and stagecoach company, Wells Fargo helped to open the West, as its storied drivers fought off desperadoes to bring back the gold from California's rich mines. Now the nation's 13th biggest bank, Wells Fargo has been less successful in conquering the new West. Last week Government trustbusters stopped the company from completing one of the biggest mergers in U.S. bank history-a deal that Wells Fargo's chiefs had hoped would expand their reach throughout California...
Died. Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, 93, pioneer efficiency expert and mother of the family described in Cheaper by the Dozen; in Phoenix, Ariz. Lillian Moller was working on the third of her 17 master's degrees and doctorates when she married Frank Gilbreth in 1904. The couple soon collaborated on several books (now considered efficiency primers), not to mention six sons and six daughters. Two of the children, Frank Jr. and Ernestine, wrote Dozen in 1949, describing the management techniques used in the Gilbreth household: a daily assembly call, a weekly family budget session, and a division of labor scheme...
Died. Clarence Cook Little, 83, educator and pioneer cancer researcher; in Ellsworth, Me. When Little emerged in 1954 as a spokesman for the tobacco industry, arguing there was no firm clinical evidence linking smoking and lung cancer, few were surprised. The brilliant geneticist had long been regarded as a maverick. Little suspended his research to run the University of Maine from 1922 to 1925. Later, as president of the University of Michigan, he angered students by attempting to ban on-campus drinking and enraged parents by lecturing on birth control. In 1929, Little left Ann Arbor for Bar Harbor, where...
...constructed in 1946 at the request of civil-defense planners, who hoped to duplicate X-ray plates that might be destroyed in the event of an atomic attack. Never put into full operation, the clumsy model was later acquired by Dr. John Wolfe of Hutzel Hospital in Detroit, a pioneer in the field of xeroradiography. His work with the machine eventually caught the attention of Dr. John Martin, a radiologist at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston. Martin and several colleagues convinced the Xerox Corp. and the American Cancer Society that the device had great potential for cancer detection. Last year...
Died. David Sarnoff, 80, the radio-TV pioneer who organized the National Broadcasting Company and became head of RCA Corp. (see BUSINESS...