Word: lyons
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...know tobacco best-Philip Morris' Board Chairman Al Lyon, 67, and Benson & Hedges' President Joseph Cullman Jr., 71-have the same hobby: horseback riding. Last week they decided to ride the same horse, i.e., merge their fast-growing companies. The new company will keep the Philip Morris name and officers, absorb Cullman as chairman of the executive committee, his son Joseph III as a vice president. But the Cullmans will continue to run Benson & Hedges as a separate division...
Both the key men in the merger have spent most of their lives in tobacco. British-born Alfred Emanuel Lyon has been selling cigarettes ever since he arrived in New York in 1912 and asked Tobacco Products Corp., the makers of Melachrinos, for a job. "We don't need anybody," he was told. "Oh," said Lyon, "then you're selling all the Melachrinos you want?" He got the job, and by the time his employers launched Philip Morris cigarettes in 1933 he was a star salesman...
Intent on extending the Liberal Party's string of four consecutive victories and 18 years of power is Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 71, who succeeded William Lyon Mackenzie King as leader of his party and nation in 1948. St. Laurent was using an old and effective campaign technique. He traveled around the country making unemotional speeches, talking to schoolchildren like a wise old grandfather, mentioning with pride the accomplishments of his government, but abstaining almost wholly from campaign promises. With a powerful, entrenched party behind him, his own unmatched personal popularity, and an enviable record of producing both...
...most interested spectator at the explosion was John L. Lewis, who had been scheduled to testify the day after Lyon appeared. Asked to say something about the victory he had won, the U.M.W.'s Lewis smiled all the way out from under his brows and said: "There is no sense in putting a cap on an empty bottle...
Forty-eight hours after the court's decision. Mile. Germaine Ribiere, representing Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon, crossed into Spain on the last of several recent trips to find the boys. This time they were waiting for her in San Sebastian, in the home of the Spanish provincial governor...