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Hawk-nosed, hawk-fast Sosthenes Behn has run International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pretty much as a one-man show. Undisputed boss of the world-straddling empire he helped found, he has remained so by moving faster than bosses of governments. In 1941, just a few days before the Nazis moved in, Behn sold l.T. & T's telephone-operating subsidiary in Rumania to the government at a handsome profit. He sold out in Argentina last year for $95 million (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), and he got $88 million in cash and bonds for l.T. & T. properties in Spain...
Company officials candidly said that l.T. & T. had made mistakes in running Federal. Its experience had been largely in communications (All America Cables & Radio, Inc., Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., etc.). But l.T. & T. was getting production know-how and expanding its U.S. enterprises (principally Federal Telephone & Radio) to make up for its liquidated or blocked overseas investments...
...group has asked all undergraduates to telegraph Speaker Joseph W. Martin and House Majority Leader Charles W. Halleck '07 from the House and Union booths, requesting their support behind the measure...
None could be more pleased than the 1600 citizens of Cambridge now waiting for telephones to learn that the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is building an annex to their Cambridge office to accommodate increasing requests for phones...
...Calumet Farm's six-year-old gelding, Armed, had been outdistanced by six-year-old Stymie as the leading money winner of all time (TIME, July 28); but he was not forgotten. The Triangle Publications (Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph, etc.) named him 1947's Horse-of-the-Year. The voting: Armed 25, Assault 2, Stymie...