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Shot back new Chamber President Philip M. Talbott, senior vice president of Woodward & Lothrop, Inc., a Washington, D.C. department store: Wilson's "pains do not refute our findings. Our members are not all rich. Many of them are having a difficult time making any profits at all in the face of high taxes...
...will succeed him. Last week a logical candidate moved closer to the job. Into the second-in-command post of Deputy Secretary went slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-mannered Donald A. Quarles, 62. In 1955 Industrial Scientist Quarles (Western Electric, Bell Labs) succeeded the late Harold Talbott as Air Force Secretary, impressed Wilson and Washington by quietly, capably directing a crack Air Force. At Defense, Quarles succeeds Reuben Robertson Jr., who is leaving after two years to return to private industry (Champion Paper & Fibre...
Died. Harold E. (for Elstner) Talbott, 68, energetic, quick-tempered, self-styled (in Who's Who) capitalist and aviation-industry executive, who resigned after 2½ years as Secretary of the Air Force in August 1955 after telling the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he had been "mistaken" in writing possible clients of his private firm (Paul B. Mulligan & Co. of New York) on Air Force stationery; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Talbott counseled a farewell Pentagon luncheon: "Do right and don't write...
...Force Secretary Harold Talbott resigned after evidence that he had made telephone calls and written letters on Air Force stationery to drum up business with defense contractors for the New York efficiency engineering firm in which he was a partner...
Despite the drop in auto sales, there was no lessening of overall buying, since employment (66 million) and paychecks are at a peak. Retail sales are 3% above last year, and Philip M. Talbott, president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association (8,000 department and specialty stores), said that he expects this year's sales to break last year's record...