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Outsider In. Six months ago, old (66) hawk-nosed Sosthenes Behn was jarred into relaxing his one-man control of the International Telephone & Telegraph. Insurgent stockholders, led by Financier Clendenin Ryan, had succeeded in electing seven (out of 23) directors (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week, Behn voluntarily relaxed some more control. He stepped out as president (remaining as chairman and chief executive officer), got his new board to bring in an outsider: A.T.&T.'s operations & engineering chief, Vice President William H. Harrison...
...brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor John P. Lewis, who had kept the staff together during eight uncertain weeks, was out on the street...
Live Wire. In Boston, Telegraph Clerk Virginia Sullivan carefully counted the ten words of a customer's message, handed over $500 as soon as she had absorbed it: "This is a stickup. Quiet and you won't get hurt...
...last communications link was gone. A member of the rebel underground pressed a note into my sleeve promising uncensored use of Tropical Radio's transmitter at Cartago, Figueres' provisional capital. So I borrowed a jacket and a pair of hiking shoes and, with a Tropical Radio telegraph operator, lit out over the mountains for Cartago...
...Irving Berlins' daughter Mary Ellin-whose maternal grandfather was Postal Telegraph Magnate Clarence Mac-kay-became engaged to Dennis Sheedy Burden, a socialite with a Newport background. This moved Manhattan's earthy...