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Died. Lizzie Miles (real name: Elizabeth Landreaux Pajaud), 68, one of the last of the great Negro blues shouters. a laughing, mountainous, born-and-bred Bourbon Streeter who belted them out for the jazz bands of Kid Ory, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
...economics at Harvard, and taught at both Harvard and Princeton. He was an editorial writer for McGraw-Hill's Business Week when he joined the draft-Ike movement in 1951. After six years with Ike, Hauge was lured away from the White House in 1958 when ubiquitous Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg. a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., persuaded him to become chairman of the finance committee at Manufacturers Trust Co. When Manufacturers merged with the Hanover Bank last year. Hauge became vice chairman, a job in which he was charged mainly with managing the bank's large investment...
...economy performs in 1963 will depend largely on whether the President can persuade Congress to vote a sizable cut in income taxes. U.S. businessmen, enthusiastically on the President's side for a change, view the proposed tax cut much as a company might view a loan. Says influential Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg, partner of the investment banking house of Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "It's just like when General Motors invests in a new plant?it gets its money back over a period of years...
...keep in close touch, and a successful new shoe design by the high-priced Johnston & Murphy line can be quickly copied by Genesco's lower-priced lines. Nonetheless. Jarman insists that each division retain its own distinctive personality, and that division managers have wide autonomy. Says one Wrall Streeter: "Genesco gives a lot of leeway to the divisions, and Maxey runs around ready to throw the book at them if they don't perform." Echoes a Genesco vice president: "He gives you enough rope not only to hang yourself but everyone else as well...
...Chairman of the Bored, Streeter...