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After eight months of shopping. Trans World Airlines finally got a new president and chief executive officer. He is Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., 50, former vice president of Bendix Corp., and a friend of onetime Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, who joined the TWA board as a representative of the creditors who lent the line $165 million for new jets...
Four weeks ago Breech approached Tillinghast about taking the TWA post. "I had some real questions," admits Tillinghast. "The careers of recent TWA presidents have been rather short." There have been five in the past 14 years, largely be cause of conflicts with eccentric Howard Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA stock. But Breech and two other trustees got the right to vote Hughes's stock. The di rectors assured Tillinghast of a free hand, and he signed...
After three years of practice in the Providence firm of Tillinghast and Collins, Chafee returned to Harvard to teach civil rights in the Law School. Among his first students were such incipient barristers as Dean Acheson, Joseph N. Welch, and Archibald MacLeish. Chafee hopes his lectures "did they no harm." Since 1919 Chafee, in the capacity of full professor, has preached the primacy of the First Amendment, its defense and its preservation...
Died. Lieut. General James Tillinghast ("Nuts") Moore, 58, oldtime (since 1921) aviator, who led the First Marine Air Wing in the Southwest Pacific in World War II, and later commanded all Marine aircraft in the Pacific; of a heart attack; in Columbia...
...Murry Biochin, Jerome A. Cohen, Russell C. Dilks, S. Gordon Elkins, Kiaus Eppier, Joseph M. Field, Alan Gladstone, Howard A. Gilckstein, Anne Gross, Alexander P. Hoffmann, Robert L. Lasky, N. A. Levin, Stuart M. Paley, Alvin H. Schulman, Genne R. Sliver, Daniel M. Singer, Gorden B. Spivacak, David R. Tillinghast, Gerald Walpin, George C. Zachary...