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...description, "the top man in the field." His monumental arias of trade include You'll Feel Better About Smoking with the Taste of Kent, Kent with the Micronite Filter; the rousing Big Gallon song, the Cities Service Suite; Newport Filter Cigarettes, Newport Filter Cigarettes; the Bon Ami Jet Spray Sonata; and the battle hymn of York Imperial-size Cigarettes. Soon radio and TV audiences will be hearing his latest creation-the new national anthem of the American Gas Association-several thousand times a week...
Abderrahmane Fares, 50, is chairman of the twelve-man French-Moslem Provisional Executive charged with responsibility for Algeria's administration and the conduct of the referendum (probably in June) in which Algerians are expected to vote overwhelmingly for "independence in cooperation with France." A rotund bon vivant as fluent in French as Arabic, Fares comes from a Berber family (his father was killed fighting with the French army at Verdun in World War I), and at 25 became the first Moslem notary public in Algeria. After the rebellion began in 1954. the French government sent Fares on a lecture...
...boss of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros. Over at Macy's, Chairman Jack I. Straus was quick to match the Gimbel grin. Said he: "Our Christmas sales this year will come close to or break the season's record." From Burdine's in Miami to the Bon Marche in Seattle, U.S. retailers last week reported the same phenomenon: with "big ticket" items such as TV sets leading the way, department stores sales spurted 6% above last year's levels during Thanksgiving week, and many stores have done even better since then...
...future. Once, for example, he heard about an unsuccessful roofing material called Congo. He bought the company, painted the material a different color, turned it into a profitable floor covering (Congoleum). In his lifetime his name was associated not only with advertising but with such pioneering firms as Bon Ami and Technicolor...
...great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the Bey of Tunis, who educated him, freed him, made him his minister of defense. His paternal grandfather was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem...