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...handle such firearms as Earp's long-barreled Buntline Special with authentic eélan-he is perhaps the only regular Western type on TV who aims his gun before firing. And O'Brian's good looks make the show so popular with women that Procter & Gamble, one of his sponsors, is happily planning to add a commercial for a ladies' shampoo...
...PROCTER & GAMBLE is moving into completely new lines with take-over of Duncan Hines enterprises, which inspects, approves restaurants and lodgings, and issues guidebooks and credit cards. P. & G., whose sales hit the billion-dollar mark in the fiscal year ended June 30, also bought the Hines line of prepared cake and bake mixes from Nebraska Consolidated Mills...
...Distillers Corp.-Seagrams' President Samuel Bronfman, International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson, United Merchants 81 Manufacturers' President J. W.Schwab, Colgate-Palmolive Chairman Edward H. Little, Procter & Gamble President Neil H. McElroy, Republic Steel's President C. M. White...
...year and a half ago in an attempt to knock CBS's I Love Lucy from the No. 1 position in the ratings, will fold up its scalpels and silently steal away in August. The last Nielsen ratings found Lucy still No. 1, Medic No. 81. Both sponsors (Procter & Gamble and General Electric) failed to renew their options, and NBC plans to return to the attack on Lucy with a new series of filmed thrillers called Impact...
Worker stock programs are not a new idea, and for some businessmen their past record is against them. In 1929 many of the biggest corporations -U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, A.T. & T., Procter & Gamble-some 200 in all, had stock programs. But when the Depression hit, all but a handful ran into trouble and were dropped. Not only did the workers, like almost everyone else, sell out at large losses, but the plans themselves were faulty. Most called for stock to be bought at a fixed price on a fixed day and paid off in rigidly fixed installments...