Word: babb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office in Racine, Wis., Jervis J. Babb, executive vice president of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (floor wax), got an unexpected phone call from New York City. Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of the global Unilever soap empire, had never met Jerry Babb, but he wanted to. Would Mr. Babb have lunch in Chicago that week with him and Paul Rykens, boss of Unilever's Dutch affiliate...
...luncheon, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens politely questioned Babb about his background. "But it was plain," Babb related afterward, "that they already knew everything about me. So I wasn't sure what was up." Next day Babb found out. He was asked if he would like to be president of Unilever's U.S. subsidiary, Lever Bros.-a job which has been vacant ever since Lever Bros, and Charles Luckman parted company three months ago (TIME...
Freshman Captain Bob Mello will have plenty of competition in the pole vault. Exeter has four men who can top 11 feet--Jerry Babb, Rhodes Hart, Charles Crawford, and co-Captain Jim Ladd. Mello should take first in this event, but the Crimson will be hard-pressed for second and third...