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...Thompson's account executive to Ford in Detroit. He handled the job so well that he was made a vice president in 1947. In 1955 he was chosen over 84 other vice presidents as president of J. Walter Thompson. Since then Strouse has won a reputation as a builder of new business, has also won back such multimillion accounts as Standard Brands and RCA. Madison Avenue competitors describe Strouse as "a good organization man in the best sense of the word...
...Mamie Eisenhower, 63, recovering in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center from an attack of acute asthmatic bronchitis, an illness that has plagued her previously and may prevent her accompanying Ike on his Far East tour this week; Philadelphia Builder John B. Kelly Sr., 70, mending after an operation for intestinal adhesions and buoyed up by a visit from his daughter, Princess Grace of Monaco; Eugene Dennis, 54, chairman of the Communist Party in the U.S., bedded in a Manhattan hospital after surgery for lung cancer; Cinemactor Gary Cooper, 59, whose prospects for recovery were "good" after...
...wrote to President Eisenhower, Senator Lyndon Johnson and others charging that "the conduct of the contractor has established a pattern which indicates a deliberate plan not to pay for equipment rented." 34-Minute House. Hayes has been an unusual operator in the construction industry from the start. When his builder father fell on hard times in the Depression, ij-year-old Hal took a job as a timekeeper for a San Francisco construction company, rose to general superintendent in a year, soon was out building houses on his own. Hayes believed that the way to find a market...
Real estate is costly in the mountain valley that houses Caracas, but the hill called La Roca Tarpeya, considered too steep for building sites, long stood barren right in the middle of town. Now an ambitious young builder is covering the rock with a cap of concrete and glass to form a spiraling, 25-acre commercial area worth $30 million. Architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, 36, calls his project "the helicoid," or spiral. In the two years that construction has been under way, Romero has spent $16.5 million, and last week the helicoid was 60% finished...
Married. Anna Maria Moneta Caglio, 30, socialite dubbed the "black swan" by the Italian press while she was performing as a controversial, contradictory witness in the Wilma Montesi homicide case, which shook Italian governmental circles from 1954 to 1957; and Mario Ricci, 34, builder, student, playboy; in Florence...