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...years ago, a University of Pittsburgh trustee asked Pitt's Chancellor Edward Harold Litchfield: "Edward, don't you have enough balls up in the air now?" Replied Litchfield, who was running a $100 million drive to upgrade Pitt, promoting a $250 million redevelopment of the school's Oakland neighborhood, serving as chairman of S.C.M. Corp. (formerly Smith Corona Mar-chant), and heading Studebaker Corp.'s Executive Committee: "Maybe I do-but don't call me down on it till I drop one." By last week it was clear that Litchfield had finally fumbled...
...forth between them with complete assurance. A few names tell the story. Presidential Adviser Walter Heller and Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith are now back at their academic posts (Minnesota and Harvard), widely sought after and well paid as consultants and lecturers. The University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona and a director of Studebaker and Avco. M.I.T. Nutritionist Samuel A. Goldblith is also a vice president of United Fruit. Around Boston, particularly along famed Route 128, there are some 1,000 space and electronics firms in whose executive echelons businessmen and scientists...
...half a century the domineering chief of the world's largest aluminum company. In those eight years, in a series of frequent but gradual transitions, Alcoa's chairmen have three times passed on their duties as chief executive shortly before retirement. Last week, nearing 65, Chairman Lawrence Litchfield Jr. relinquished his duties as chief executive officer, a position he has held for only three years, to President John Dickson Harper, 55, Alcoa's first boss of the post-Davis era. Said Litchfield: "It's time to get the next first team lined...
...converting its forest holdings in five states into summer homes, lakefront recreation centers and even such ski resorts as Crystal Village, 76 miles from Seattle. Goodyear Tire & Rubber recently set aside $5,000,000 to speed the transformation of 14,000 acres of its property near Phoenix into Litchfield Park, which it hopes will become a satellite city of 90,000 people by 1985. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. is busy with six projects, ranging from a Houston industrial park to a resort and retirement center in Portugal. Hearst Corp. plans to turn part of the late William Randolph Hearst...
Divorced. Madeleine Carroll, 59, beauteous British-born star of the 1930s and '40s (The Thirty-Nine Steps, Café Society); by Andrew Heiskell, 49, board chairman of Time Inc.; on grounds of desertion; after 15 years of marriage, one child; in Litchfield, Conn...