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...William K. Whiteford, 56, president of Gulf Oil Corp., officially becomes chief executive officer with the retirement of Sidney A. Swensrud, 56, as chairman of the board, a post that will be discontinued. Burly, aggressive Bill Whiteford, who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University, was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co., Ltd., made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Swensrud, who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management, strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings, firmly but unofficially took over...
...Hole in the Head (by Arnold Schulman) possibly originated as a kind of problem play-as something that should tackle the situation of a roughneck Jewish rolling stone left to bring up a twelve-year-old motherless son. That, in any case, is substantially how-after lots of Miami-hotel atmosphere and Jewish-family antics-it concludes: far from anything being straightened out almost nothing in A Hole in the Head has been explored...
Died. Andre Marty, 70, tough, skull-cracking old-line Stalinist, Comintern secretary (1935-43) and onetime No. 3 man in the French Communist hierarchy, who was read out of the party after he balked at Russia's 1952 peace offensive; in Toulouse, France. After Roughneck Marty caught the party's eye, he was elected in 1924 to the Chamber of Deputies (where he served 1924-32, 1936-39, 1946-55), during the next decade became notorious as a party hatchetman. He helped organize (1936) the International Brigade, won dubious recognition for his Spanish Civil War exploits from Novelist...
...Proud and Profane (Paramount) is another rematch between those reliable romantic antagonists: the roughneck and the lady. Both are in uniform this time, and their I-hate-you-I-love-you conflict is fought on the beaches and bedrooms of the South Pacific during World...
...accomplishment simply to have lasted through the roughneck growth of baseball into its age of respectability and glory. But Connie Mack did more than survive: he changed the game...