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Discontent deepened after Founder Flanagan's ailing successor was replaced last October by Father Robert P. Hupp, a fatherly former Navy chaplain. Hupp recruited psychologists, counselors and social workers-including an ex-convict -to bring the community out of the 1940s. Boys Town also bought a house in Omaha to aid older boys with their reentry into society...
Steel? Guess again. As far as Hong Kong cares, it is Gibson - which is short for the Hupp Corp.'s Gibson Refrigera tor Division of Greenville, Mich. This month Gibson has been discombobulating the city like nothing since the Japa nese invasion...
College for Profit. Gibson accounts for about 50% of Hupp sales, and although the parent company showed a $2,600,000 net loss last year, nobody-except perhaps a disgruntled stockholder or two-frets about the expenses of the yearly travel. Neither does the Internal Revenue Service, which accepts it as a business expense. Early mornings are devoted to sales pep talks at "The Gibson College for Profit"; the college awards diplomas. Gibson President Charles J. Gibson Jr., 46, holds awards luncheons, hands out Hollywood-type Oscars to supersalesmen. "They go over particularly well with the womenfolk," he says. Each...
ELISABETH HUPP Urbana...
Although tourist travel accounts for the biggest share of charters, corporations are joining the fun. Next week Hupp's Gibson Refrigerator Division of Greenville, Mich, will spend nearly $2,000,000 to charter 31 Pan American 707 jets to fly 5,080 dealers from 23 U.S. cities to Honolulu for a sales convention; General Electric has chartered 17 jets for a similar junket this fall. All of the nation's 16 major-league ball clubs now travel on chartered planes, and there are even charter runs to ferry monkeys and elephants from India, blooded Irish race horses...