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...earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing ten times as many ears as he did two years ago, which delights the jewelers; women with pierced ears become permanent customers...
...Robert M. Ganger, 49, who left the advertising firm of Geyer, Newell & Ganger and became president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent) in 1950, then resigned to "regain his health" last May (TIME, May 11), went back into the advertising business as chairman of the board of St. Louis' D'Arcy Advertising Co., 16th biggest U.S. ad company. ¶ Marlin G. Geiger, 56, was elected president of the Davison Chemical Corp. to succeed R. L. Hockley, who resigned to become vice president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. Educated as a chemical engineer, Geiger was a vice president...
Through the dinner the Smith kids were speechless. Nannette, 11, had to stuff a napkin in her mouth to keep from giggling. Young Kent, 5, spilled his cider on the damask tablecloth, and Cheryl had a change of heart. "I wasn't going to eat," she said, "but I got hungry." After dinner King Paul made a quick tour of the farm with Smith. Then, with a home-cured ham tucked under his arm, the King waved goodbye and drove back to Chicago to tell the Queen all about...
...meeting sponsored by the Kent (Conn.) League of Women Voters last week, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I believe that Alger Hiss, had he remained as head of the Carnegie Foundation without detection of his alleged treasonable act, would have done less harm to the cause of this nation's prestige abroad than [McCarthy Subcommittee Investigators] Schine and Cohn did in their junket through Europe...
...ahead of last year's showing, and Benson & Hedges' ("You're so smart to smoke...") Parliaments, oldest filter on the market, which, for the third consecutive year, expect to boost sales 40%. Darkest horse in the filter race is P. Lorillard's (Old Gold) Kent. Eased into the market in the last half of 1952, Kent, with a hefty ad budget, is going ahead so fast, says one Lorillard executive, that "it's ridiculous to even talk about percentage increases, it's been so great...