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In his office in Racine, Wis., Jervis J. Babb, executive vice president of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (floor wax), got an unexpected phone call from New York City. Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of the global Unilever soap empire, had never met Jerry Babb, but he wanted to. Would Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Boss for Lever | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Administration members jumped on the Democratic sweep in the Empire State to point up their claims of bigger and better things for the Fair Deal. They pointed to victories in traditionally Republican cities like Syracuse and Port Jervis, and to the fact that four Democrats gained city council seats in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modified Mandate | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

The Cloven Hoof. In Port Jervis, N.Y., Motorcyclist Clark Ponnell complained that a deer crashed into him, rode the handlebars for 150 feet before Ponnell landed dazed on the highway, "and then the deer walked over and kicked me."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Against the Palestine Government, are arrayed 17 of Abdul's heirs. They are solidly backed by such solid Britons as Sir Malcolm Stewart of the Federation of British Industries and Colonel Beresford Lockhart-Jervis of Malaysiam Tin, Ltd.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Whose Jiftlik? | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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