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...such shows, thus far only Garroway at Large, sponsored by Congoleum-Nairn Corp., has been a conspicuous commercial success, but their total impact on TV has been enormous. Fred Allen, due to make his own TV bow this month, says: "The Chicago shows are making an effort to do something. They're short on money, short on talent, but long on inventiveness." And NBC's Herbuveaux, who believes in a change of pace, adds: "After half an hour of being beat over the head by New York, people enjoy a half-hour of leaning back with Chicago...
...November executors for the Ellis P. Earle estate (paint, exporting, mining, banking) sold 81,575 shares of Phillips Petroleum to about 750 investors, followed through by parceling 21,400 shares of Congoleum-Nairn to 176 buyers. Total value of the lots...
Albert Wahl Hawkes, 64, New Jersey, president of Congoleum-Nairn...
Businessman Politician. New Jersey's Republicans had their closest primary ever. By noon next day Albert Wahl Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, knew that his party had chosen him for U.S. Senator over New Jersey State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson. Of his flyer in politics, Industrialist Hawkes says he hopes the voters will think: "Here's a fellow going on 64. Certainly he isn't trying to become a political boss." Albert Hawkes's interests lie in the field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter...
Said the Chamber's retiring president, indomitable Albert W. Hawkes (Congole-um-Nairn): "We want to preserve our system. We are not fighting for a new, unknown system." A resolution to curb bonuses as well as wages for the duration produced the first floor fight in seven years of Chamber conventions. Lammot du Pont declared: "The point that irks me most is the idea of not being allowed to pay extra compensation for more and better work. A bonus does not affect prices, it reduces the cost." The Chamber also fiercely debated the open shop before demanding legislation...