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...office in Racine, Wis., Jervis J. Babb, executive vice president of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (floor wax), got an unexpected phone call from New York City. Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of the global Unilever soap empire, had never met Jerry Babb, but he wanted to. Would Mr. Babb have lunch in Chicago that week with him and Paul Rykens, boss of Unilever's Dutch affiliate...
...luncheon, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens politely questioned Babb about his background. "But it was plain," Babb related afterward, "that they already knew everything about me. So I wasn't sure what was up." Next day Babb found out. He was asked if he would like to be president of Unilever's U.S. subsidiary, Lever Bros.-a job which has been vacant ever since Lever Bros, and Charles Luckman parted company three months ago (TIME...
...Geoffrey Desa 2GB, a Somerset, England, man now at the Business School, has offered his car for sale in the good old American bargain-basement style...
Joseph B. Dallett '51 of Wayne, Pa. and Elliot House has won the John Osborne Sargent Prize and Geoffrey B. Riddehough IG of Vancouver, British Columbia has won the Bowdoin Prize in Classics...
...House of Commons, Tory M.P. Geoffrey Lloyd had concluded a long and bitter attack on the government's gasoline rationing policy. Lloyd swept his eyes over the thinned-out ranks of the Laborites, and turned to the Speaker. Said he: ". . . We . . . propose to divide the House," i.e., call for a vote on an earlier motion to adjourn...