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Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...
...were for him as second-best to Roosevelt, and those who worked with Willkie for his own election to the Presidency. Of the score of men beginning with Campaign Manager Ralph Cake who had done most work for and with Willkie in his 1944 campaign, only one, Albert D. Lasker, was last week in the Roosevelt camp. All the rest were working for Dewey. Senator Joe Ball (see below) had led the rival cam paign for Harold Stassen of Minnesota, whom Willkie disliked even more than he did Tom Dewey...
...major reason for Pepsodent's change of mind about selling was probably that Chicago's advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker, for 25 years mastermind of profitable Pepsodent, and Kenneth Smith, son of the company's founder and its chief stockholder, wanted to get out. Under the terms of the sale all stock, including Luckman's 15%, goes to Lever Bros...
...president of Pepsodent. At that time, he got a good coat of Irium himself; besides his $100,000 salary, his stock interest in the company was raised from 5 to 15% (Douglas Smith's son Kenneth holds the majority of the stock; the rest is still in Albert Lasker's hands...
Last week Chuck Luckman was in Manhattan, en route to a Florida conference with Albert Lasker. He had just signed up Charlotte ("So Long Letty") Greenwood for his summer radio program while Bob Hope, "Pepsodent's No. 1 property," is on vacation. Luckman says: "Without looking I can tell the seasons of the year and the Crossley ratings just by the tone of Hope's voice when he phones me for a raise...