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...students, Richard B. Hirst and Charles L. Geer, got the idea about a year ago from Geer's freshman roommate. Derek Reist, soon after the Surgeon General's Report on Cigarette Smoking had been issued...
Since Reist was "not the commercial type," Hirst and Geer acted on his suggestion. They formed Blue Knight Enterprises, which, by the middle of the summer, had began a market last of the cigarettes...
...sent them to distributors in Cambridge, Boston, Greenwich Village in New York, and San Francisco," said Hirst. "College students would buy a pack or two, but older folks would buy a pack or two and give them to friends. A lot of older people bought them at Leavitt & Pierce." Geer noted that Kiss of Death sales did not cut late the market of other brands...
...pound division, Leverett's Charles Geer defeated John Sinnott of Quincy, and in the unlimited category Tom Weber of Leverett defeated teammate Chris Nowlis. The wins gave the Bunny matmen a total of 21 points for the tournament, followed by Quincy (16), Eliot (13), Lowell (11), Kirkland (8), and Dunster...
Died. William Geer, 88, inventor of new uses for rubber, a onetime B.F. Goodrich research vice president who retired to work on his own in 1925, at one time or another held 40 patents, among them the first successful aircraft deicer, thick strips of pulsating rubber that fitted over the leading edge of the wings and shook off storm-cloud ice as quickly as it formed, a device that after 30 years is still used on many prop-driven aircraft, but not on the big jets; after a long illness; in Ithaca...