Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locked Out. In Columbia, S.C., About Face Editor James Bradley was invited to a Greater Columbia United Fund dinner, regretfully declined because of previous commitments, explained that his weekly is published by state penitentiary convicts...
Able, hard-working James Herbert Case Jr., Wall Streeter turned educator, left the presidency of Washington and Jefferson College nine years ago to take over a lively problem school: tiny (295 students) Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Bard was broke; a onetime experimental affiliate of Columbia University, it was left with more teachers than it could adequately pay. Case moved in with a sure hand. His 47 teachers have seen their paychecks increase an average of 60%. A full professor who used to get $6,000 yearly can now expect...
With one of the nation's highest tuitions ($1,680), Bard can squeeze little more out of its students, whose total costs per year are now a hefty $2,500. Last week Bard's onetime parent, Columbia, calmly turned the trick by boosting college tuition 21% to $1,450. Reason: "the imperative need" for increasing faculty salaries. A Columbia full professor's minimum pay will now climb...
...Golden Fish (J.-Y. Cousteau; Columbia). Once upon a time there was a goldfish. It lived in a tank in a carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy wanted with all his heart to win the goldfish and take it home, but he had no money to bet with. The goldfish and the boy looked at each other for some time, wishing and wondering. Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor...
...Logan Truax Johnston, 60, was elected president and chief executive officer of Armco Steel Corp., succeeding Ralph Larrabee Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth...