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...garages. In its 100 years, the U.S.'s largest stock insurance company (it is fourth among all insurance firms) has also reshaped the skyline of the $178 billion insurance industry, introducing such firsts as double indemnity and automobile insurance. Last week Travelers did some internal reshaping. Into its vacant chairman's seat moved erudite President J. (for John) Doyle DeWitt, 62, to be replaced as president by Executive Vice President Sterling T. Tooker, 51, the likely successor as chief executive when DeWitt retires three years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: New Hands on the Umbrella | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

Director Stephen Most has considerably obscured this question, however, by a highly stylized interpretation. Amy Singewald, as Miss Y, moves like a sleepwalker, holds peculiar positions, and gazes out into the audience with large, vacant eyes. There is a hint that she is the weaker, but she seems to come from a world where that concept doesn't apply...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Two by Strindberg | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

MacGillivary was arrested last Wednesday near a vacant lot in his home town of Billerica by patrolman Emile Steele, who testified that he was MacGillivary abandon a car, walk down a road, and throw the car keys into the woods. Judge Arthur L. Eno of the District Court in Lowell imposed the sentence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chef's Helper Caught After Taking 12 Cars | 11/23/1964 | See Source »

Constitution Plaza has successfully reversed this desertion. Hartford's biggest retailer, G. Fox, added a $12 million annex to its store just across the street, and Korvette's decided to occupy a long-vacant store near by. The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., which had been planning to move to the sub urb of West Hartford, changed its mind and built a graceful, green-glass ship of a building, connected to the plaza by a bridge, that is the handsomest store that had just spent a million dollars on redecoration. But Wallace's plan was voted unanimously, and even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Under the Knife, or All For Their Own Good | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

Chairman C. R. Smith had picked a man for the presidency of American Airlines, which became vacant fortnight ago when Marion Sadler quit in frustration and took off on a hunting trip in New England. And who was Sadler's successor? Why, it was Marion Sadler himself. No explanations were offered, no pronouncements delivered. Smith simply flashed one of his familiar, terse memos, known to insiders as "Smith-grams," to puzzled employees: "Good news! Mr. Marion Sadler is back at his desk this morning with the usual duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Fasten Executive Belts | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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