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Career: To the money he inherited, Weeks has added a fortune he built as chairman of the board of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips) and chairman of the board of Reed & Barton Corp. (silverware). A founder of Boston's first Young Men's Republican Club...
Shown courting Rachel Wardle as well as being haled to court in the Widow Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most...
When Iran's ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadegh was in the U.S. last year, he met W. (for William) Alton Jones, president of Cities Service Co., the twelfth-biggest U.S. oil company. Three weeks ago, on Mossadegh's personal invitation, "Pete" Jones hustled to Iran, looked over the Abadan...
Seniority. In Covington, Ky., James Riggs, 95, told police who arrived to help his 65-year-old son take him home from a tavern: "I'll go home with you guys, but no runny-nosed kid is going to tell me what to do."
Died. Andrew Jackson Higgins, 65, rough & ready boss of Higgins, Inc., designers and makers of the snub-nosed landing craft that saw service in every theater of World War II; of complications resulting from stomach ulcers; in New Orleans. Bluff, tough "A.J." personally supervised every phase of his business, posted...