Word: still
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tobacco Co., and v.p. of a Madison Avenue ad agency; he was the network's president within four years, its ex-chairman three years later. When NBC's President Robert Kintner (TIME, Nov. 16) began his TV career by assuming high office at ABC, his fingers were still sore from five years as a Washington columnist. Louis George Cowan, until last week president of the CBS-TV network, seemed to fit the pattern. Although he was a highly successful independent TV packager, Cowan moved into the upper echelons of CBS-TV four years ago, largely because...
...Episcopal Bishop of the California diocese, with full rubric and laying on of hands, had conferred on a Methodist minister-not Episcopal orders but episcopal orders. As a result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy, George Hedley, 60, is the well-beloved, brilliant father figure and campus character of California's small (700 students) Mills College for women. Born in China to British Methodist missionary parents, educated in England and the University of Southern California, he had served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor...
...week's end Jim Buchanan, hungry although not mistreated, was still behind bars, and Evelyn Hill, safely back in Miami, was being kept under wraps by the Herald. Clearly Fidel Castro, who ordered the arrest of three other newsmen last week,*was making a point in his own theatrical way: "foreign" reporters are not welcome in Fidel Castro's Cuba...
Railroads. Rail traffic in the first half, said James L. Symes, chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be 5% to 7% over the first half of 1959, when the rails were still steaming out of the recession...
...cortisone group market. Not for seven years did Merck recover its $21.8 million investment. Present to support Connor was Dr. E. C. Kendall, formerly at the Mayo Foundation, now at Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage to persist in trying to make it after everyone else had abandoned the attempt...