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...Carl Joyce Gilbert, 50, stepped up from vice president to president of Gillette Co., maker of razors, Paper-Mate pens and Toni permanent-wave kits (1955 net earnings: a record $28 million, up 9% from 1954). He succeeds Joseph P. Spang Jr., who becomes board chairman. Gilbert went to the University of Virginia, got a law degree from Harvard in 1931 and joined a Boston law firm, where he stayed until Gillette hired him as treasurer in 1948. He was made a vice president...
Last week President Eisenhower dispelled the storm with as flat a statement as a presidential candidate is ever likely to make about his prospective running mate. "Anyone," said the President at his news conference, "who attempts to drive a wedge between Dick Nixon and me is-has just about as much chance as if he tried to drive it between my brother and me ... I will say it in exactly the terms I mean: I am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. I would be happy to be on any political ticket in which I was a candidate...
Even the Democrats are pushing Nixon toward renomination. Many at present are gleefully blasting him as a slanderer, but secretly hope that he will be Ike's running-mate. "Tricky Dicky," they say, is the Republican Party's Achilles Heel, and not many independents are going to vote for a heel, no matter who the President may be. While the Republicans, therefore, want Nixon because they think he can win, the Democrats want Nixon because they think he might cause a Republican defeat...
...document proving that the Communist Party had secretly decided to operate through the Democratic Party. All of this does not quite amount to calling the Democrats traitors, but it comes so close to McCarthyism that it is surprising and dishearting to find Eisenhower supporting Nixon as his running-mate...
Another reporter asked if the President would be content, Nixon willing, to keep Nixon as his running mate. The President replied: "Well, I am not going to be pushed into corners here and say-and right now, at this moment-say what I would do in a hypothetical question involving about five ifs. And I don't think you should expect me to. I do say this: I have no criticism of Vice President Nixon to make, either as a man, associate, or as my running mate on the ticket...