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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seeing the picture you had [Dec. 23] of the Holt family and the eight Korean-G.I. children they had adopted was a highlight for me in the holiday season. One of those eight was a little girl that I picked up from the mud of a paddyfield in Korea 2½ years ago. She was frightened and ostracized by the other village children. I came in contact with Mr. Holt on his first trip to Korea, and this little girl was one of the first he adopted; I shall always remember him for his genuine love and concern...
Defense Secretary McElroy had just come from the U.S.'s 29th largest corporation to the world's largest public business-and Procter & Gamble seemed small by comparison. P. & G.'s 1957 net sales of $1,156,000,000 amounted to the operating costs of the Defense Department for ten days. Its $67 million net earnings would buy little more than a fully equipped nuclear submarine. Moreover, the rush of military technology had made the job of Defense Secretary bigger and tougher than ever before. The Soviet satellite revised all military parameters, and it was up to Neil...
...finding out what's going on." Ambitious, hard-driving Neil McElroy found out enough to realize that Procter & Gamble, with its incentives for the ambitious, hard-driving organization man, was the place for him. He never got to business school, instead stayed on at P. & G., first as a soap salesman, then in the advertising department. In the early 1930s he had an offer from a big New York ad agency. "I'm not going to take it," he told a friend. "I'm going to stay with Procter & Gamble. But I'm not going...
...race for P. & G.'s presidency, McElroy got a strong hand up from Camilla Fry McElroy, handsome daughter of a Cincinnati industrial-soap manufacturer, whom he had married in 1929. "Camille" McElroy shared his ambition, helped him overcome a personal handicap of stuttering, entered into a family partnership to get him on his way. They limited their entertaining primarily to important P. & G. people, resolved never, never to go into debt-in fact refused to buy a house until they could do it without a mortgage. In due time he bought his present grey-green stucco house (known...
...Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr. '40, has been named to head a University-wide program for maintaining present standards in health and safety and for meeting new problems as they arise...