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...Philip Knight Wrigley, 48, who has voting control of 31.8% of the world's biggest chewing-gum works, fired himself from the presidency of his $64,000,000 company last week. His main reason was almost too simple: he thought it would be better for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of Chicago...
...cardinal principle upon which the Wrigleys have always operated came from Phil's father, the late William Wrigley Jr. Florid Supersalesman Wrigley founded the business in 1891, talked gum policy to his serious-minded son from the time he was six and said he wanted to go into the business. As Phil puts the Wrigley principle now: "My father used to feel that if you were used to doing things a certain way, that was reason enough to change...
Tender Comrade (RKO-Radio) is a kind of Little Women of World War II. But most of the characters are grownups who speak a curious chewing-gum dialect presumably intended to suggest that the speakers are tough but tenderhearted...
...less durable pubs. Long before dark, queues of mothers and children waited outside tube entrances, carrying bundles of food and bedding. For U.S. soldiers, waiting in shelters was a new experience, but the kids' underground question was no different from the street-level question: "Got any gum, Yank...
...Whatta dey wanna go messin' around faw? Whatta dey wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...