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...sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955. A chief stockholder (50,000 shares), he has had a hand in pushing Reynolds sales toward this year's record goal of $1 billion, faces the task of keeping up sales of Winston, now the best-selling filter tip, which is pressed by Kent...
...Maybe some people wish it were dead," he said. He pointed out the skeptics in the crowd, sitting like silent gods on the periphery--and cupping their hands to whisper clever comments to camel-haired coats from Radcliffe and B.U. "Filter-tip cigarettes and buttondown brains," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "They come as a form of social entertainment...
...Cars. The paramount importance of style, so evident in 1958 models, was slow to make itself felt on automakers. In the years when buying, driving and tinkering with the family car were a proud male prerogative (and when most car owners could still distinguish a carburetor from an oil filter), the big sales features were dependability and technical improvements-plus the giddy growth of the U.S. itself. Every new road opened up a new market; every new mechanical advance-hydraulic brakes, balloon tires, steel to replace wood and leather-brought the new buyers flocking to Detroit's door...
...conclusive. But if the immoderate smoker is not healthy, or if science succeeds in providing conclusive proof of danger, then the sin becomes more serious. Taking into consideration that some smokers do not inhale, and that some grind out each weed after a few drags (but without bringing filter tips into his calculations), Father Connell leniently set the sinful borderline for excessive smoking at three packs...
KENT CIGARETTES are being rationed to jobbers by P. Lorillard Co. because recent promotion of company's nicotine-and tar-cutting filter has lit up sales. Kent, which last year was far down the list, is now challenging top filter brands. Lorillard's stock has puffed from year...