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...JAMES F. CALVERT Commanding Officer...
Liquor trade journals hailed Distillers Corp.-Seagrams as a trail blazer for its ads claiming that "Clear Heads Call for Calvert Taste." Its Calvert subsidiary ran the ads despite the Government's disapproval-based on the ad's implicit promise of freedom from hangover. But it later changed the wording to "Clear Heads Agree: Calvert Tastes Better" after a threat of formal charges. While Seagrams nervously denies that it is trying to make a test case for the industry, Vice President
Abiding Passion. Piloting Continental is President Robert Six, 49, a burly Californian who is not only a Man of Distinction (1947) for Calvert whisky but for Ethel Merman, his musicomedienne (Happy Hunting) wife. With a Westerner's derring-do, Six has dabbled in oil wells, uranium and chemicals, hunts elk in Colorado, backs shows on Broadway (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
When President Samuel Bronfman of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams started to look for a man to boss the Canadian company's U.S. subsidiary, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons (Seagram's, Calvert, Four Roses), he did not have to look far from home. Into the job last week went his party-loving son, Edgar Miles Bronfman, 27. As president of the nation's top distiller (1956 sales: $677 million), young Bronfman replaces Frank R. Schwengel, 71, who takes over the new office of chairman. Edgar's brother Charles Bronfman, 25, stays in Canada as vice president of another subsidiary...
...Janette Ross, 17, who spent most of her childhood in an isolated log cabin in the wilds around Anchorage, Alaska. Her father is a fisherman and trapper, and Janette got most of her early schooling through correspondence courses from Baltimore's Calvert School. Now enrolled at Oregon's Lewis and Clark College, she hopes some day to become an author...