Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Walter George entered the U.S. Senate he took the seat that had been occupied by a Southern demagogue of the old school, Thomas E. Watson. When George steps out, he almost certainly will relinquish that seat to a new kind of Southern partisan. Viewing the prospect, nearly every member of the U.S. Senate agreed last week with the Baltimore Evening Sun: "Few men could step into Senator George's shoes; Mr. Talmadge couldn't even shine them...
...Thomas J. Watson Jr., 42, was elected chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp., taking over from his 82-year-old father, IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., who remains as board chairman. Young Tom Watson, "Mr. THINK Jr." (TIME, March 28,1955), will continue as IBM president. A supersalesman who is fond of saying that he takes "real pride in being a great man's son." Tom Jr. has been with IBM since he graduated from Brown University in 1937. As chief executive officer, Tom Jr. will officially become top boss, although unofficially he has been running...
...commandant and the commander of the Parris Island barracks should be booted from the Corps because the responsibility is squarely on their shoulders for allowing Mc-Keon to be a group leader of men. McKeon, who is obviously a misfit, is to be pitied CHARLES M. WATSON Brookhaven, Miss...
...college, is no stranger to the West. Tambi settled in London in 1937 at the age of 21, and within two years launched Poetry London on a ?5 shoestring. The magazine went broke on the second issue, but Tambi kept it alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron of the arts with a flourish, built PL's circulation to 10,000, made it a proving...
Only 13 men failed to receive any room assignment because of lack of housing facilities, compared to the 172 students on summer placement last May. Dean Watson attributed this drastic reduction to the addition of Wigglesworth Hall to upperclass housing facilities and to a drop in the number of commuters seeking housing...