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...With Procter Avon, Crimson hurler, in distress after eight men had faced him in the seventh, Lefty Edinberg took over the mound assignment retiring the Freshmen with the bases loaded...
...Procter & Gamble, having sold more soap in the fiscal year through June than in any on record, made $6,629,564 in the quarter ended Sept. 30. compared to $3,604,505 in the same period...
...Procter & Gamble was to continue to rent the largest amount of air time. With 13 hr. 15 min. a week on National Broadcasting networks, P. & G. will spend some $3,000.000 this year on seven different programs to plug Oxydol, Ivory Soap, Camay, Chipso, Crisco. Because it now uses day time exclusively, Radio's No. i customer is not likely to be inconvenienced this autumn, as will many another advertiser, by the many and unavoidable interruptions caused by the political oratory of a Presidential campaign. As in the past, most of P. & G.'s programs will be serial...
Bishop of New Jersey since 1915 has been Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews, portly, white-crowned High Churchman, onetime Dean of the Cathedral in Cincinnati, into whose Procter (Ivory Soap) family he married. Currently Bishop Matthews is engrossed with a slowly rising, million-dollar cathedral of his own, to which Trenton's bridge-building Roeblings have been generous. Nearing 70, Bishop Matthews has indicated a wish to retire. The man who has served as his Bishop Coadjutor, Albion Williamson Knight, retired last autumn because of his years (76). Offered this post with the right of succession, Manhattan...
Soapmaking seems to inspire active social thinking. The late Lord Leverhulme, founder of world-spraddling Lever Brothers (Lux, Lifebuoy), was Britain's famed high-wages-&-short-hours Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends...