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Nicos Vernicos, 34, scion of an old Mediterranean shipping family, was named president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic passenger carriers (Italia, Atlantic, Homeric, Roma, Nassau, Homeland). Vernicos was picked and trained for the job by his shrewd bachelor godfather, Eugen Eugenides, who was boss of the line till his death last April. Vernicos was born in Sifnos, Greece, educated at the University of London, worked for Swedish State Railways and S.K.F. before joining the Home Lines...
...make money (TIME, Nov. 9). His primary purpose was to make World an important magazine on international affairs. But World's circulation never topped 50.000 (v. a 125,000 break-even point), and losses continued to run at more than $40,000 a month. Last week Publisher Phillips, scion of the wealthy Phillips Gas & Oil* family of Pennsylvania, sadly admitted defeat after he and his family had poured upwards of $1,000,000 into the venture. Said Phillips: "The American public was not ready for a magazine devoted exclusively to international affairs. World was as untimely as Chrysler...
...Pathan. and scion of Moslem notables in the North-West Frontier Province, Ghaffar Khan tramped the roads, spreading the gospel of satyagraha (passive resistance). His followers were called "Red Shirts" because they wore garments dyed with a cheap red coloring from red bricks...
...briefly toward the red politically under its foreign-born editor, Louis Dolivet. He quit the magazine in 1950, after he had gone to Europe and been barred from reentry by the U.S. Government. Two years ago U.N. World got an overhauling by its new publisher, Roger S. Phillips, 31, scion of a wealthy Pennsylvania family (Phillips Gas & Oil Co.*). Phillips tried to make the magazine look less official (it was never connected with the U.N.), spruced it up with more pictures, brighter writing and worldwide coverage. But when U.N. World went on losing money, Publisher Phillips folded...
...Howard's manager, feted at a city banquet last year as scion of gracious living and upright tradition, is today as purveyor of filth. This formerly honest family man is new a corrupter of youth, the incarnate devil who not only takes the hindmost, but swathes it in a G-string to waggle before adolescent eyes...