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United Drug, Inc., after staring at subnormal profits statements for years, turned over a new leaf last week. It installed young Justin W. Dart, 34, as vice president and director and made him president of its Liggett Drug Co. subsidiary, largest U.S. chain of retail drugstores. Liggett has been one of United's vital assets but an unsatisfactory earner. Dart's job is to do something about...
Despite his tender years, Dart is already an ex-Alger hero. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, handsome, he played football at Northwestern University, graduated in 1929, went to work as a stockroom clerk in a Walgreen store in Chicago, married Ruth Walgreen, the founder's daughter, and rose to be general manager of Walgreen Co. By last year he had been divorced from the founder's daughter and quit...
...sweet Walgreen profits. Once they proposed a merger, but Walgreen would have none of it. The latest corporate stirrings came when Life Saver's Edward John Noble, former Under Secretary of Commerce, began to work on a new idea. The idea: to put Walgreen's Justin Dart, then footloose, at the head of the Liggett chain. Noble & associates enlarged their United stockholdings, lined up their friends, put on some pressure. Quietly, and amid seeming satisfaction all around, young Mr. Dart last week stepped in to see what he could...
Great-Grand-Daddy. Henry Ford is 78 and a great-grandfather, but he is still lively, curious and productive. His shoulders are stooped by his years, his neat salt-&-pepper suits hang loosely on his spare limbs. But his body is still tough, his bright eyes dart restlessly as the fingers of a machine. The Ford Motor Co. is, as ever, a one-man show...
...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...