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Other changes of the week: ¶ John Bruce Bonny, 57, was elected president of the Morrison-Knudsen Co., the world's biggest publicly-owned heavy construction firm (1959 construction completed: $236 million). He succeeds Harry Winford Morrison, 75, who, with the late M. H. Knudsen (TIME cover, May 3, 1954), founded the company with $600 in cash 48 years ago and who will continue as chairman. San Francisco born. Jack Bonny started in the construction business after graduating from the University of California in 1925, joined Morrison-Knudsen in 1931, as a project manager. He became a vice president...
Died. Ann Daly Morrison, 72, wife of world-girdling Morrison-Knudsen (construction) Co.'s Chairman Harry Winford Morrison (TIME, May 3, 1954), known to many as the "First Lady of Construction" because since their marriage in 1914 she had traveled the world with him; of a circulatory ailment; in Boise, Idaho...
...House. In Los Angeles, Winford Johnson, 39, was arrested on a complaint by the Temptation Inn owner, who had asked him to "watch the place for a while," later returned to find that Johnson had made off with $450 from the tavern safe after buying drinks all around...
...disagreement. The man who has done more than anyone else to change the face of the earth lives in a one-story frame house at an elevation of 2,695 ft. in Boise, Idaho (long. 116° 11 min. W., lat. 43° 34 min. N.). He is Harry Winford Morrison, 69, white-haired boss of Morrison-Knudsen Co., the world's biggest heavy construction firm...
From an ice-coated sun deck on a suburban Evanston, Ill. home, a half-paralyzed chemist last week slipped and fell to his death. Thus prosaically ended the life of Winford Lee Lewis, 64, who invented one of the deadliest weapons of chemical warfare: lewisite...
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