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...Chicago was checking details of Luckman's former activities there. At that point we were dismayed to learn that the deadline for announcing Luckman's new job had been advanced a week. That would make us late with the news. We sat tight while Luckman chased Geoffrey Heyworth, Lever Bros. board chairman, around England by transatlantic telephone, relaxed when it was decided-a day or so later-to keep the June 3 release date...
...Viscount Leverhulme, now 58. As his father did, he still owns the largest single block of stock in Unilever Ltd., enough to give him a working control of the company. Unlike his father, he has shown little flair for selling. Most of Unilever's plans are concocted by Geoffrey Heyworth, the stocky, handsome chairman of the board. A onetime Rugby player, he came to Lever at 18, has climbed to the top chiefly because of his rare organizational talent which has kept the empire running with a maximum of dispatch, a minimum of confusion. When Chairman Heyworth has some...
...School has been awarded the $100 George Emerson Lowell Classics Prize for his proficiency in the combination Greek and Latin languages examination, it was announced yesterday. The winner of the $100 presented for ability in the Latin test alone is Richard A. Webster of Loomis. Honorable mention went to Geoffrey Bush, of Phillips Academy, Andover, and Stephen B. Baxter, of St. Paul's School, for the joint competition, and to George J. Kandzie, of Hingham High School, and William Gifford, of Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, for the single examination award...
...handful of British and U.S. intellectuals a month ago petitioned Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence at the Niirnberg trials for a question ing of Nazi prisoners, to clear Trotsky of the charge of dealing with them. Among the U.S. signers: Socialist Leader Norman Thomas, Critic Edmund Wilson, Novelist James Farrell. Among the British signers: H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler...
Santelmann has been a member of the band through three White House occupancies, became its conductor in 1940. During the Hoover Administration, the band played barn dances in the East Room. In the days of Calvin Coolidge, the Marines never appeared at the White House without Lord Geoffrey Amherst. In Franklin Roosevelt's day they always carried Home on the Range. Now they are never caught without Missouri Waltz. For the music-loving Harry Trumans they have lately been playing as often as five times a week. Said Santelmann happily: "White House entertaining is getting back to normal...