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Miss Taylor is, after all, a competent actress, and she does at times bring to the role of Gloria Wandrous something of the spirit of O'Hara's book. But Mr. Harvey is a totally unbelievable Weston Liggett. He speaks with a muted British accent, which may be intended to sound like Old Yale, but doesn't and he looks as though he were still in Room at the Top. It is inconceivable that any girl would waste a week touring the East's better morels with such an out-and-out spineless creep as Mr. Harvey portrays...
...McCann-Erickson for Liggett & Myers (Chesterfields, L & Ms): "No portrayal of pipe or cigar smoking or chewing . . . While we do not want to create an impression of one continual, smoke-filled room, from time to time in the shows we feel 'natural' smoking action is a requisite by the cast. We don't want public criticism in encouraging the too young or 'too young looking' to smoke. On the other hand, the high school and college market is extremely important to Liggett & Myers as future longtime customers...
...late husband as "a human chimney"; she testified that he smoked so much that she had to get out of the house to breathe. From the age of nine he smoked two to five packs of cigarettes a day. His brands: King Bee and Picayunes (both made by Liggett & Myers) and Camels (R. J. Reynolds). Lartique died five years ago at 65 of lung cancer...
Despite a lot of talk about disappointing second-quarter earnings, many investors seemed to buy and sell for other reasons. The stocks of Budd, Goodrich. Liggett & Myers and American Steel Foundries, for example, all rose despite lower earnings reports. A.M.F., Burroughs, Crown Zellerbach, General Foods and Gillette all fell despite the fact they had higher earnings...
...skilled leader. He helped establish a church relief program in Harlem, dished out a thousand free meals a day in the church basement, quickly became a civic mover and shaker. He early recognized and utilized the latent strength of Harlem, was able to force such commercial giants as Liggett Drug stores and Consolidated Edison to employ Negroes. When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every telephone call they made. The telephone company promptly capitulated, began to hire Negroes. "Negroes have...