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...George Homer Gribbin, president and chief executive officer. Young & Rubicam...
...network programing, and the news that their advertisers' program time will be diminished by 10 seconds, with no reduction in price, gives them fits. "It is our contention that such a move is arbitrary, uncalled for, and a disservice to the American public,"' Young & Rubicam President George Gribbin complained patriotically in a telegram to ABC Head Oliver Treyz. Treyz wired back that the change was, too, in the public interest, because it strengthened the economy of the local station. It will also strengthen ABC's economy through the five stations it owns...
...week's end, other agency chiefs had joined Gribbin's protest, but their complaints were futile; Treyz announced that he had $200 million worth of contracts signed with 40-second breaks...
...George Homer Gribbin, 51, senior vice president since 1956 of Young & Rubicam, third largest U.S. ad agency (first: J. Walter Thompson, second: McCann-Erickson) with estimated 1957 billings of $230 million, was named president, succeeding Sigurd S. Larmon, 67, who remains as chairman and chief executive officer. A small-town boy, Gribbin was born in Nashville, Mich. (pop. 1,374), graduated from Stanford University ('29), put in stints as a copywriter with Detroit's J. L. Hudson department store, the May Co., Bamberger's and R. H. Macy before joining Y. & R. in 1935. He soon made...
...John the Divine last week Bishop-elect Kroll was consecrated by an exceedingly noteworthy company of his Episcopal colleagues. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry was the consecrator. Co-consecrators were retiring Bishop Campbell of Liberia and Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. Bishop Robert Emmet Gribbin of western North Carolina was the gospeler; Suffragan Bishop Charles Kendall Gilbert of New York, the Epistler. Bishop Paul Matthews of New Jersey and Suffragan Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd of New York presented the candidate for consecration. Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island preached the sermon...