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Since 1948, his close alliance with U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther has helped G. Mennen Williams overcome the violent opposition of Michigan industrialists, win five elections for governor. But in a national presidential election...
...heir to the soap millions of Mennen Co., Williams finds precedent for his presidential hopes in the political success of another Democrat born to wealth. Writes he: "Many younger businessmen who would like to participate actively in the Democratic Party do not do so because they are afraid to. In some areas the young man in a profession or in business is ostracized if he becomes or remains a Democrat. He is looked on as a traitor to his class. This epithet was applied to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and I have heard this foolishness applied...
While Michigan's bow-tied Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams flitted around the U.S. adding polish to his presidential sheen, the man who minded the store for him over the last three years was polished, personable Lieutenant Governor Philip A. Hart. Last week 45-year-old Phil Hart allowed that his turn had come to leave Michigan to get a new sheen of his own. Summoning newsmen to his Lansing office, Hart announced that he would be the Williams-backed Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Charles E. Potter...
...Mentally Unbalanced." Reaction to the salt-and-pepper twins was swift and violent. The U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther called Goldwater "this country's . . . number one peddler of class hatred ... a reactionary ... a stooge for big business . . . mentally unbalanced and needs a psychiatrist." Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams hustled to the rostrum to defend Reuther. (Mused a pleased Michigan Republican: "The people are getting the idea that every time Reuther takes an Alka-Seltzer, Soapy burps...
...Grey list and Fatt was on the fire. On the very day that he wrote his memo, trim, slim Adman Fatt appeared on his first TV program, the third-degreeish Nightbeat, to support the view that admen really believe in their products. Fatt said he had used Grey-advertised Mennen Hair Creme and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee in his own home that very morning. What about Kolynos toothpaste? He had fallen down there, he conceded in a burst of confidence. Instead of Kolynos he had brushed with Crest, a Procter & Gamble product not handled by Grey, though Grey...