PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 12, 1955

¶ William C. Whitehead, 61, moved up from executive vice president to president of fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John...

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