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...Brittany Darwell and Joshua Fleer contributed to the reporting of this story...
...long-suffering Red Sox fan with a vast baseball-card collection (including every complete Topps set from 1952 to the present and a prized Fleer Ted Williams card), Lafley swims, bikes and works out several times a week. In recent years, he has spent downtime learning to play the guitar along with the younger of his two sons, who is in high school. Even as a member of a fraternity at Hamilton, Lafley was known as a consummate consensus builder. Around P&G, he is admired for being unusually approachable and a great listener. Unlike Jager, who alienated...
DIED. WALTER DIEMER, 93, creator of a chewy, rubbery substance better known as bubble gum; in Lancaster, Pa. An accountant for the gummaker Fleer Corp. in the 1920s, Diemer tinkered with gum recipes during his spare time. Bubble gum--later marketed as Dubble Bubble--was an experimental mistake, but local kids bought out his first 5 lbs. of the stuff in a single afternoon...
Beavis and Butt-head are the animated, sex-starved adolescents created by cartoonist Mike Judge. The cards were created by MTV networks and Fleer Entertainment, a leading trading card company, as part of a growing amount of lucrative Beavis and Butthead merchandise, according to a statement released by Fleer earlier this spring...
...finally, if you go in search of non-Topps companies, don't look for bubble gum. I still can't open a pack of baseball cards without salivating, but only Topps is allowed by the courts to carry gum, which is supposedly its trademark in the card market. Fleer offers a team sticker for your lunchbox and Donruss has pieces of a 63-part Stan Musiaal jigsaw puzzle (last year's was Roberto Clemente). I've never been excited enough about the idea to put one of the puzzles together. Score, for all its pluses, includes a worthless card containing...