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...William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's clam-like, bachelor Prime Minister, was asked by Maxime Raymond, leader of Quebec's British-hating Bloc Populaire: how much did Canada have to pay for last September's six-day Quebec (Churchill-Roosevelt) Conference? The to-the-penny answer...
Agnes DeMille has, however, put on a spectacular array of terpsichorean wizardry ranging from a classical rendition of a hornpipe to an example of modern dancing which is beyond doubt one of the best seen this season. Again the "Oklahoma" touch appears in Anabelle Lyon, who is a copy of Joan McCracken...
When he takes over, Philip Morris' president, shy, lanky O. H. Chalkley, moves into the new job of board chairman. Since 1936, when they got the job of running Philip Morris, Chalkley & Lyon have been one of the smoothest management blends in the tobacco business. Chalkley keeps his eye on tobacco buying. Al Lyon does the selling. His first job was to turn Philip Morris from a "class" cigaret which sold only 3,800,000,000 a year into a popular brand...
Philip Morris soon took Old Gold's place in the Big Four. By 1943, Al Lyon had boosted sales to 29 billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a walk. Now, production is virtually frozen at 34 billion cigarets a year (six brands) compared to Liggett & Myers' (Chesterfield) 66 bil lions, R. J. Reynolds' (Camel) 77 billions and American's (Lucky Strike) 94 billions...
...Lyon does not expect the present shortage to last long. He insists that it is, to some extent, an artificial one, caused by 1) hoarding and increased consumption, 2) the black market, 3) necessary over-buying by the armed services. Said he; "The Army has to buy six to nine cartons for every one smoked abroad to keep their pipelines filled...