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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the 600 convention delegates who represented 192 ADA college chapters was a Harvard contingent of ten students and five faculty members. They heard Wilson W. Wyatt, former housing expediter and national chairman of the organization, keynote the convention with an assault on Henry Wallace's candidacy...
Morgan Man. The House of Morgan got a new chairman, Russell C. Leffingwell, 69, a Morgan partner since 1923, a director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc. since its incorporation in 1940. He succeeded the late Thomas W. Lamont. President George Whitney, Morgan's operating head since 1940, continues in the same...
...Charles E. Wilsons (no kin) who boss General Motors Corp. and General Electric Co. flunked the test, along with six other corporation presidents.* They did not answer Benson. But the rest all passed handsomely. Benson even got two to agree with him. Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s Guy W. Vaughan and Sinclair Oil Corp.'s Harry F. Sinclair reported that they had already cut their salaries. Republic Steel Corp.'s Charles M. White, who makes $200,000 a year, made no such concession. Said he: "I have no intention of suggesting that my salary be reduced...
...Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s J. P. Spang Jr., Cities Service Co.'s W. Alton Jones, Decca Records Inc.'s Jack Kapp, Childs Co.'s Edward C. Field, American Chicle Co.'s Thomas H. Blodgett, Artloom Corp.'s A. S. Mitchell...
...Inconstant Eye. In Britain's Nature magazine, Dr. Robert W. Lawson of the University of Sheffield considers the human blink. For the average (J-type) eye, says Dr. Lawson, blinks last about .3 seconds and come about 2.8 seconds apart...