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...years, the fluffy chick eternally popping out of its shell on the Bon Ami trademark has assured U.S. housewives that the famed old cleanser "hasn't scratched yet." But the Bon Ami chick, if not yet scratching, is not unscratched. Five years ago, the Manhattan-based Bon Ami Co. was looted of $3,000,000 by Swindler Alexander Guterma (TIME. Feb. 23, 1959). As Guterma was packed off to jail, a reform management team, headed by dapper airline and hotel operator R. (for nothing) Paul Weesner, 51, moved in to put Bon Ami back on its feet. Last week...
Lined up against Chairman Weesner and four fellow Bon Ami officers was a formidable coalition: Tel-A-Sign Inc.. a Chicago billboard manufacturer which last month bought 16.5% (88,703 shares) of Bon Ami's outstanding stock, plus two former Bon Ami employees-ex-Vice President Olen Webb, 40. and his wife Pat, 44. who for more than ten years was Weesner's $12,000-a-year private secretary. Guided by Tel-A-Sign's largest stockholder. Attorney Roy Cohn, 35. onetime Boy Friday to the late Senator Joe McCarthy, the coalition charged that Weesner...
Denying all these accusations. Weesner last week insisted that the real purpose of the suit was to "bludgeon" Bon Ami (which showed a $300,000 profit for the first half of this year) into a merger with Tel-A-Sign (which lost $455,000 in the past fiscal year). Bitterly Weesner charged that Pat Webb had taken advantage of her position as his secretary to steal company records, and was now indulging in "distortion of those records, double-dealing, broken agreements." As for the cottage-priced bird cage, Weesner snapped: "Sure I have this macaw. This bird and I take...
...short after six holes because everyone was soaked to the skin. Next day, his nostalgic 2,000-mile tour of Western Europe ended, Ike and Mamie, 65, boarded the liner America at the port of Cobh as cathedral bells pealed and a crowd of hundreds wished them bon voyage...
Said Thompson last week, declining to disclose how much he had made or lost on the venture: "For the sake of international relations, we will stoke up Bon Jour and putt off into the night." Building up steam, Thompson achieved at least one thing. Though it still bans commercials, the state radio is playing noticeably lighter music...