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...chairmanship of Republic's board goes Girdlers protégé, straight-talking Charles M. White, 65, president of Republic since 1945. The new president is genial Thomas F. Patton, 53, who reflects an era far removed from the fighting, roaring times of Tom Girdler. Patton is the first Republic president who did not come up through production, instead, started as Republic's general counsel in 1936, more recently helped negotiate steel's most peaceful strike. With Girdler gone, Chairman White will set Republic policy, Patton will execute...
...audience at Tanglewood last week sat a man who has committed much of his time and most of his fortune to changing all that. He is 49-year-old Chicago Wine Importer Paul Fromm, and he was at Tanglewood to hear the works of two of his protégés, Ben Weber's Serenade for Strings and Alvin Epstein's Sabrina Fair, premiered by members of the Boston Symphony...
After the war Stalin gave him the vital Ministry of Building Materials, then rushed him off to the Ukraine to put out fires of rebellion that the local party boss, another Kaganovich protégé, Khrushchev, seemed unable to handle. Later in Moscow, Kaganovich was placed in charge of labor...
...sure to like Uruguay's President. The nephew, protégé and successor of Statesman José Batlle y Ordóñez (who 50 years ago implanted modern democracy in a country battered by civil war), Batlle Berres, 58, is an engaging blend of hotheaded leader and old-shoe egalitarian. As a newspaper publisher, radio-station operator and politico, he seems to speak authentically for his liberty-loving little (pop. 3,000,000) nation...
...talk unless you know what you are talking about." In 1940 Sylvania hired him away as sales-planning director; a year and four months later he was in Washington helping Banker Sidney Weinberg set up the Industry Advisory committees of the War Production Board, became Weinberg's protégé, and later an assistant to War Production Board Chief Donald Nelson. Everywhere he went, Funston's personality magically opened doors. Said a colleague: "He never battered them down. Doors opened as if by an electronic eye-the light picked him out, and the door just opened...