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...Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) last week called upon Ralph W. Gallagher to step down from the lofty seat of board chairman (which he has held since Walter Teagle resigned last November) and assume active management of the world's largest oil company. They also elevated Production Man Eugene Holman to a seat on Standard's potent four-man executive committee...
...dopesters who had earlier laid their bets on 47-year-old Gene Holman for president (TIME, Jan. 4) these two moves looked like a logical interregnum-for Elder Statesman Gallagher has only three years to go before reaching Standard's retirement age (65). As if to underline that conclusion Standard's directors last week refrained from moving any other top-notcher up to fill the post of chairman of the board...
Most likely candidate would seem to be tall, big-framed Eugene Holman, now 47 and in charge of all production. Starting with Standard's great subsidiary Humble Oil, Holman became president of Lago Petroleum in Venezuela, Standard's other big crude producer. Holman still maintains a first name basis with many a Texas driller, is also respected in Washington where he has been serving on the Petroleum Industry War Council. Last week it looked as if the mantle of Rockefeller, Teagle and Farish would fall...
Kirkland's only good gains came on passes, two of them by George Albion and one by Gene Sands. Manny Holman caught one, while end Burt Lewkowitz snared two tosses, one of which was good for 40 yards...
Kirkland: le Karb, Casey; It Tibbetts; lg Dr. Hewitt; c Campbell; rg Comer; rt Wiechmann; re Lowkowitz; qb Trumbull, West; fb Brodrick; rhb Holman; lhb Stern, Slattery...