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...One-Man Show. This time the British made sure that Lever Bros, would not be a one-man show as it had been under Chuck Luckman. In as chairman of the board with new President Babb went grey-thatched John M. Hancock, 67, Lehman Bros, partner, chairman of Chicago's Jewel Tea Co., crack corporate troubleshooter and longtime associate of Bernard Baruch. Franklin J. Lunding, 44, Jewel's president and a protégé of Hancock's who, according to gossip, had turned down the Lever presidency before it was offered to Babb, was made chairman...
Across the Square from the Misses Littlefield is the Alice Darling Secretarial Service, the one-man managed agency on the Square. The bureau is now owned by John S. Marston who bought it in 1948 when Miss Darling abandoned typing for law practice. For Miss Darling's as for the other bureaus, the thesis rush began in March and is now subsiding...
...Zealand air but the occasional backfire of a twin-engined bomber, the clap of autumn thunder or the scream of a siren. Jimmy Duncan, 59, had retired. There was no truth whatever, he roared in parting, in the story that he had been offered a job as a one-man public-address system. "Perhaps," said Jimmy, reflectively, "I'll raise cabbages...
Death & Tears. Menotti is an operatic one-man show who writes his own librettos and his own music, then stages and directs the whole production as well. He has been doing that sort of thing since he was eleven...
Died. Charles Coastas, 58, former Honolulu restaurateur whose generous hospitality toward wounded servicemen during the war won him a Navy citation and the grateful title, "One-Man U.S.O."; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...