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...first jobs in a law office, like the assignment that brought him onto the national scene, had to do with an investigation. He was an older attorney's leg man in the investigation of mismanagement at the Knoxville General Hospital. Result of the investigation: a thorough shake-up at the hospital...
LEVER Brothers, which had a management shake-up four years ago, is still in difficulty. Though the privately owned company never discloses operating figures, it admits it wound up 1953 with a big loss (reportedly $5,000,000), while both Procter & Gamble and Colgate's increased profits. Reasons: poor sales, high operating costs, and a 13-week strike at Lever's Hammond, Ind. soap plant...
Last week the difference gave Look a wholesale shake-up in its top editorial staff. Since President Cowles leaned towards Shapiro's view of how Look should be run, Tasker abruptly resigned. Into his place went an old Look hand, Dan Mich, 49, who had resigned in 1950 as executive editor of Look to become editorial director of McCall's (circ. 4,525,060). Because Cowles wanted "to give Mich a free hand in selecting his assistants," Look's Executive Editor William Lowe and Managing Editor Les Midgley resigned with Tasker. New Editorial Director Mich, whose salary...
...That in ordering the doctors' purge in January, he intended a drastic shake-up in the higher echelons, with Lavrenty Beria (whose police were accused of laxity) marked out as one of the first victims. ¶ That Malenkov got wind of Stalin's intentions, and-fearing that such a purge might involve himself sooner or later- made common cause with Beria. ¶ That something historic happened in the Kremlin the night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice...
...Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the first news of Stalin's death, Mao cabled President Shvernik, and Chou En-lai cabled Vishinsky; their condolence messages must have reached Shvernik and Vishinsky just as they were being fired, suggesting that Peking had no advance word of Malenkov's shake-up plans...