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...Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis B. Mayer, the aging (72) lion trainer who retired six years ago, but whose cream-colored, leather-paneled office is still kept vacant. Along with his two allies, said President Vogel, Old L.B. is "actively attempting to seize control...
When refugees from several Hungarian orchestras poured into Austria last winter, U.S. and Swiss funds helped house them and launch them on new musical careers. The musicians moved into a vacant hotel, and Conductor Rozsnyai set to work trying to whip them into shape. He prescribed six hours of practice a day; corridors echoed with violins being tuned and pianists rippling through arpeggios...
...there is precisely where the hope lies. Originality, for some, has become an urgent compulsion, not merely a contemporary fad. Perhaps the efforts of these few will spur the rest to think, to act, to be themselves. Perhaps somewhere in this vacant land, the value of character and personality will again be forced to the front, to battle with the hollow-eyed crowd of Others. And the battle will be good...
Meany and his council took pains to prove that they were after Beck and not his union, the nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that...
...Underwood's board of directors turned down a proposed merger with National Cash Register Co., President Farwell had no choice but to resign. Replacing him is another Yaleman ('33), Vice President for Finance Frank E. Beane, 44, who will take over as Underwood's chairman (previously vacant) and chief executive officer...