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...William C. Whitehead, 61, moved up from executive vice president to president of fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John...
...With Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, and Santayana stands a man whom future generations probably will pronounce no whit their inferior..."; "like Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleicrmacher, he gathers up the strands of all that is best in secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he has my vote for possessing one of the most enormous brains in the world"; these statements--the first two by editors Charles Kegley and Robert Bretall and the third by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University--all refer to Paul Johannes Tillich, Protestant theologian...
...breadth of his intellectual interests Levin certainly resembles the teachers who have influenced him most, Alfred North Whitehead and, especially, Irving Babbitt. Babbitt's encyclopdic crudition provoked his students to make bets before lectures as to how many different authors he would refer to in the course of an hour, a custom which would not be out of place in Levin's courses. But Levin is still only at the mid-point of his career. Influenced by some of the greatest teachers in the Harvard tradition, a strong influence himself on some of the brightest students exposed to that tradition...
Such a play, ANTA Producer Robert Whitehead reasoned last April, might prove a special tonic for the peril-surfeited people of France. He hand-picked Skin as his own pet project for inclusion in a "Salute to France." This cultural export (financed by thousands of U.S. donors) plunked down before Parisians the Philadelphia Orchestra. New York City Ballet, two U.S.-sponsored art shows, plus first-class stage productions of Oklahoma! and Medea (TIME, June...
...sermons in Latin and begat 18 children. Young Mark grew up steeped in respectability, devoutness and Victorian culture. By the time he went to Harvard in 1886 and met James Russell Lowell and the senior Holmes, he knew where he belonged. Another adopted Bostonian, Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, once said that if he were asked to pick one person to send to Mars as a representative of the human race, he would choose Mark Howe...