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...from Dallas, will formally take control of F.I. du Pont, Glore Forgan & Co., the nation's third largest brokerage firm. No one on Wall Street seems quite certain how to welcome a Nice Guy from Texas. A banker sent Perot a cowboy suit, and an F.I. du Pont salesman ordered a pair of tasseled loafers for his new proprietor. Perot showed up in Manhattan wearing his usual Middle America business togs and shook hands with each of the 1,500 F.I. du Pont employees working in the head office. "I wanted to tell them that they are terribly important...
...bright young men who want a chance." Du Pont's new owner has reason to believe that some of those schemes might be sound investments. Just twelve years ago, before he borrowed a small sum and started E.D.S., Ross Perot was earning $530 a month as a computer salesman...
...recruiting posters announcing 1 WANT YOU. Now youths of varied backgrounds, including cowboys and football players, appear with a new slogan: TODAY'S ARMY WANTS TO JOIN YOU. The prime-time TV spots show hay dropping over snowbound Oklahoma from Army helicopters to save starving cattle, and a salesman touting the "750-h.p., air-cooled, 12-cylinder" wonders of an Army tank, which a youthful customer promptly "buys" and drives proudly offscreen. In the ad Army, no one is asked to kill the implacable foe or save the world for democracy. A fellow could almost gain the impression that...
Died. Lewis Gruber, 75, tobacco executive; in Manhattan. A crack salesman who smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day, Gruber joined the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co. in 1924, became president in 1956. His campaign promoting the Micronite filter helped propel Kent domestic sales from 3.4 billion to 36 billion in two years. Puffing at doctors' warnings, Lorillard advertising claimed "We're Tobacco Men, Not Medicine Men," prescribed Old Gold cigarettes (another company product) "For a Treat Instead of a Treatment...
Among the guests at the party are Ben Stone (John McMartin), lawyer, author and diplomatic bigwig, who married Phyllis (Alexis Smith), an ex-Follies girl; and Buddy Plummer (Gene Nelson), an oil-rigging salesman, who married Sally (Dorothy Collins), also an ex-Follies girl. We swiftly learn that both marriages are empty failures. Younger versions of the foursome sing, dance and mime their yesteryear courtship rituals. Sally has always worshipped Ben, but we see him making a drunken pass at another old flame (Yvonne de Carlo). Buddy rather brutally tells Sally that he has a girl in Dallas...