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...University of Illinois toward his boyhood dream of becoming an architect. When he graduated in 1931, he had not only an architect's license but also a marriage license. To pay for the consequences of the latter, he took a draftsman's job at Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. He went into selling because a Colgate executive questioned the impact of one of his layouts and he had to prove personally how good it was. The nearest he has been to architecting since was to design his colonial house in Barrington, Ill. and his redwood ranch house in San Diego...
Thanks to the versatility of wry, doom-voiced Senator Ford, cozy, white-haired Harry Hershfield, and "Little Joe" Laurie Jr., this incredibly simple formula is a funny fiscal success. Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet foots the bills, and the three jokesters freely admit that they never anticipated making so much money out of Joe Millers. Sample...
...selling near its high for the year, his sales running 20% above last year. And his motivation was right in line with his executive background, first as a key man in the smart, slick advertising firm of Benton & Bowles and then as executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet...
...most of the J.A.s need some big-time help with their wartime problems. They are due to get it soon: last month J.A.'s President Charles R. Hook of American Rolling Mill Co., its chairman, S. Bayard Colgate of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, and a long list of other heavyweights put the pressure on an even longer list of manufacturers for some subcontracts for the J.A.s. By last week 85% of the Manufacturers had turned the matter over to their production chiefs for "immediate consideration...
...Lever Bros., General Mills, General Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Carter Products, Miles Laboratories, Sterling Drug...