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Chicago's incorruptible arbiter of advertising contests, the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., found itself solemnly carrying coals to Newcastle. After wading through the entries in a jingle contest pushing Columbia Pictures' Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Donnelley awarded one of the grand prizes-a minor part in Columbia's forthcoming Diamond Head-to Palm Springs Housewife Lillian Kenaston, 58, better known to middle-aged Americans as 1920s Movie Heroine Billie Dove...
...Chomping away at his customary cigar. Texaco Inc.'s soft-spoken Chairman Augustus C. Long, 57. prepared to swap $200 million worth of Texaco shares for the TXL Oil Corp.. a crude oil producer with mineral rights on nearly 2.000,000 acres in oil-rich west Texas...
...Manhattan ad agency he whimsically refers to as Batten, Barton, Durstine & Yangpoo, have helped make a flamboyant. 43-year-old businessman named Jeno Paulucci (pronounced Puh-loo-chee) the nation's most successful manufacturer of Chinese food. Barely 15 years old, Paulucci's Duluth-based Chun King Corp. now rings up more than half of all U.S. sales of packaged Chinese food. Chun King's gross climbed 15% to $30 million last year, and Paulucci-who owns the whole company-expects a still fatter gain this year...
...Striving to fend off the mounting wrath of Wall Street investors over movie-making losses that have risen to more than $30 million in the past three years, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. last week elected amiable Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, 66, chairman of the board. Lawyer Rosenman. former adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, will preside at the often explosive executive committee meetings, though President Spyros P. Skouras will still be in operating control. "The Judge will provide a very stabilizing influence," said one executive...
White House Watchdog. Under the Kennedy plan, Congress would authorize the creation of a privately owned company-called the Communications Satellite Corp.-which would be financed through public sale of securities. Its activities would be overseen by a committee of Government watchdogs reporting directly to the President...