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...visiting reporter for the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, with a great show of innocence and a grits-and-gravy drawl, said: "Mr. President, this is my first conference. My impression about you is that you look a lot younger than I thought you did." The President rocked back on his heels and let out a real belly laugh. The Southerner pressed his advantage quickly, "Would you say you are in better shape now than when you first became President...
...everyday benzedrine or phenobarbital of the masses. Now there are 109 stations in 66 cities; the hour of TV time that cost $120 on July 1, 1941 cost $3,250 last week. There are four Eastern networks, each with an outpost on the West Coast; the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is building the last section of a coaxial cable and radio relay system which will link them all up early next year...
Died. John Sheldon Olliff, 41, former British indoor tennis champion and Davis Cup player, who became one of Britain's top tennis correspondents (for the London Daily Telegraph); after a heart attack while on his way to cover the Wimbledon matches; in London...
...Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1922, three days later went to work as a $110-a-month traffic clerk for Indiana Bell Telephone Co., 26 years later was elected the $125,000-a-year president of the world's largest ($12 billion assets) corporation, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS & FINANCE...
Other top corporate changes last week: CLEO F. CRAIG, 58, was named president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. four days after President Leroy A. Wilson died (see MILESTONES). Craig came to A.T. & T. at 20, right out of the University of Missouri, moved up the executive ladder to general manager and vice president of Long Lines, became A.T. & T.'s No. 2 man when he was elected vice president of finance and revenue in 1949. LIEUT. GENERAL ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, 54, retiring commander of the U.S. Sixth Army and a leading witness at the MacArthur hearings (TIME, June...