Word: darr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bowman Gray, 50, moved up from executive vice president to president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), second largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first: American Tobacco Co.). He succeeds Edward A. Darr, 67, who becomes vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee; Chairman John C. Whitaker remains as chief executive officer. Bowman Gray, older brother of Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray, began at Reynolds as a salesman in 1930 while his father was company president, became assistant sales manager in 1939, sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955. A chief stockholder...
Married. Edmund Purdom, 30, British-born actor of screen (The Egyptian) and TV; and Alicja Darr, 26, Polish-born blonde painter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
TOBACCO WAR between the industry and the American Cancer Society is flaring up again. E. A. Darr president of the R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Cavalier) Tobacco Co., has flatly charged the society with trying to destroy the industry by claiming a link between lung cancer and smoking...
CHEWING-tobacco decline (production down 29% in nine years) is the fault of the automobile, says E. A. Darr, president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. "In the horse & buggy days, a fellow could chew and expectorate safely. Not any more...
Last week, with Camels in the top spot (bettering last year's 102 billion cigarettes), Whitaker also moved into the top spot as Reynolds' chairman and chief executive officer, succeeding the late James A. Gray. Into Whitaker's old job as president stepped Edward Austin Darr, 62, who as vice president in charge of sales had been Whitaker's chief lieutenant in the job of keeping Camels loping well in front of American Tobacco's Lucky Strikes...