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Died. William Frawley, 79, character actor, an oldtime vaudevillian who had played in more than 100 movies and Broadway shows before finding instant fame in the '50s as irascible Landlord Fred Mertz in TV's I Love Lucy, where he stayed for all 214 episodes, though he soon found the show "like eating stew every night-stale and not a bit funny"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...warmest admirers turned out to be enthusiasts of the radical right wing, who seemed determined to set her up as a martyr and symbol-like General Edwin Walker. The day before the coup, Millionaire Patrick Frawley, president of Eversharp, Inc., and staunch supporter of Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, gave a private luncheon for her to meet some of the state's leading conservatives. After that, members of the superconservative California Young Republicans offered to pay for her $90-a-day suite at Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. But Robert Gaston, president...
...senior vice-presidency at Revlon. where his hard-driving style should fit in with the scenery. Until a new boss can be found at Babbitt, Alfred I. Schimpf, the board chairman, will serve as chief executive officer. In line for the top job: new President Michael P. Frawley, 55, who moved up from executive vice president.¶ George Lane Cobb, 49, resigned as president and chief executive officer...
Consolidated Uranium itself had no part in the deal, and President Edward G. Frawley repeatedly protested to Tellier about the "exaggerated statements" in sales literature. Actually, Consolidated does not even own its biggest ore fields, and may lose them when its contracts expire in 1960. At most, its net worth is $1,000,000. Current value of the stock: about...
Last week Pat Frawley cashed in on his penmanship. He sold his company to the Gillette Co. for $15.5 million in cash. After he pays the capital-gains tax, Pat Frawley will have $11.4 million left for his six years' work. Gillette bought the company in line with its policy of diversifying into home permanent kits, shampoo and lipstick, in addition to blades. Hired to run Gillette's new ball-point-pen division: Pat Frawley...