PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jul. 13, 1953

¶ General of the Army Omar Bradley will become chairman of the Bulova Watch Co.'s research and development laboratories when he retires as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff next month. He will boss the company's 120 scientists working on secret defense projects.

¶ William James Erwin, 52, vice president and general manager of South Carolina's Riegel Textile Corp., was named president of Dan River Mills, headless since President Russell Newton was ousted last October in a company shakeup. Erwin started as a textile engineer with Virginia's Consolidated Mills in 1921, switched...

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