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...Carl J. Gilbert, 51, president of the Gillette Co., stepped up to board chairman, replacing retiring Joseph Spang Jr., 65, who pushed Gillette's sales from $16 million in 1938 to more than $200 million in 1956. A Boston lawyer Harvard Law School). Gilbert joined Gillette as treasurer in 1948. became president in 1956. Into Gilbert's job goes Boone Gross. 53, a Texas-born West Pointer ('26) who heads Gillette's safety-razor division. As chief executive officer, Gilbert will face a $6,000,000 sales slide caused in part by the short, straight Italian...
Whenever he stepped into the White House Cabinet Room last week, the President of the U.S. ran spang up against a sight that made him wince. Around the room were stretched easeled posters on which the progress or lack of progress of his 1957 legislative program had been dutifully drawn in grease pencil. The pencil marks were hardly encouraging; Dwight Eisenhower's associates got the impression of a man hurt and angry...
...Carl Joyce Gilbert, 50, stepped up from vice president to president of Gillette Co., maker of razors, Paper-Mate pens and Toni permanent-wave kits (1955 net earnings: a record $28 million, up 9% from 1954). He succeeds Joseph P. Spang Jr., who becomes board chairman. Gilbert went to the University of Virginia, got a law degree from Harvard in 1931 and joined a Boston law firm, where he stayed until Gillette hired him as treasurer in 1948. He was made a vice president...
...Unknown, about a jet flyer, and the reason he is racing his engine is that half the population of Hollywood is hell-bent in the same exciting direction. The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown. Spang in the middle of a firm prosperity, the production pattern of three decades is dissolving. The mighty major studios, which have dominated U.S. moviemaking since L. B. Mayer founded the M-G-Mpire, have been brought to humbling terms by a spectacular revolt of the stars. Hollywood, which thought...
...slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into bed with Bella Darvi. Kirk's problem in this picture seems to be: Which has the more exciting clutch? He seems to prefer the Ferrari, even though Actress Darvi offers...