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...Business Machines Corp., was named a vice president and general manager of I.B.M. World Trade Corp., which handles all of the company's foreign business. Arthur is still several notches below his brother, Tom Jr., who took over the presidency of I.B.M. in January (TIME, Jan. 28). A Yaleman and World War II veteran, Arthur joined I.B.M. as a salesman...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Yaleman Morris was one of the eager young men of Fiorello La Guardia's Fusion administration in New York. He served as president of the city council under the Little Flower (1938-46), ran unsuccessfully for mayor against William O'Dwyer. Morris has a gift for the pompous phrase and the ill-turned paragraph; as a reporter once said to him: "You were born with a silver foot in your mouth...
...football-playing Yaleman is asked to analyze Hickman's resourcefulness ("Do you think he makes the best use of the material available?" and "If not, do you feel he plays favorites? (yes or no)") and his outside interests ("Does Hickman spend more time on television than he should in the best interests of Yale football?"). Hickman has been appearing on a regular weekly television quiz program for the past year...
...Yaleman Pete Ryan, 40, started his tour at Royal as an apprentice mechanic, shifted to the sales division. After serving as an Air Force captain during World War II, he was elected a vice president of Royal in 1948, now succeeds Maxwell V. Miller, who died last month...
Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...