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...Lever Brothers (soap, tea, toothpaste, etc.), $7,274,503 for Bob Hope, Inner Sanctum, Lux Radio Theater, A Woman's Life...
British advertisers paid Radio Lux the world's highest radio rates ($625 for a Sunday quarter-hour). While the Germans occupied France, they made Radio Lux a key propaganda mill. SHAEF took over from the Germans. For months, a big question in international radio was: come peace, who would administer Radio Lux...
Last week it appeared that Radio Lux would go back to its old ways. Pint-sized Jacques LaCour-Gayet, representing Radio Lux's French stockholders, said in Manhattan: "Radio Luxembourg will be very glad to accept American advertisers...
...Walter Thompson); of a heart attack; in Hollywood. At 24, Phillips Exeter and Harvard-educated, Danker arrived in Hollywood scared stiff, green as grass, with a cultivated Brooklyn accent and a way about him that eventually collared the biggest names in cinema for such radio shows as Lux, Kraft Music Hall, Charlie McCarthy...
...commercial mystery, President Luckman sold the company for "upwards of $10 million." The buyer was Lever Brothers Co. of Mass., subsidiary of the Netherlands Lever Brothers & Unilever, N.V., which is now controlled by the British company of the same name. They make Vimms (a vitamin product); Lifebuoy Shaving Cream; Lux, Swan, Fairy and Lifebuoy soaps; Rinso, Gold Dust and Silver Dust; Spry and Coro shortenings...