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While everyone waited to hear what the dispute was about, Sir Geoffrey merely added: "It is seldom helpful on such occasions to talk about the cause." Chuck Luckman shut up just as tightly...
...York's Idlewild Airport on a sunny morning sped Charles Luckman, 40, the hustling, $300,000-a-year president of Lever Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...
Blue-eyed Chuck Luckman greeted them warmly, bundled them into his waiting Cadillac and whisked them off to Manhattan. If he assumed that this was just another routine inspection tour, he was soon disillusioned. Two days later, after almost continuous conferences in Luck-man's Waldorf Towers apartment, Luckman had moved...
...decision was made in haste and apparently in considerable heat. Sir Geoffrey waited three days before he summoned Luckman's 23 top assistants to the company's Manhattan boardroom to break the stunning news. "We and Mr. Luckman," he told them, "have disagreed over future policy and have been unable to resolve our differences and we have had to agree to part...
Wonder Boy. What had caused the jet-propelled wonder boy of U.S. selling and Lever Bros, to fall out? Certainly Luckman had made many enemies. He had ruthlessly cleaned house when he became president in 1946; he shook things up again last fall when, in moving the headquarters to New York (TIME, Oct. 17), he left several hundred Lever employees behind. Furthermore, in London's dignified Unilever House, Luckman's genius for self-promotion had not gone down well. But Unilever had seemingly been more than willing to overlook all that as long as Lever Bros.' profits...