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Like its Cake Box tobacco, over the years Leavitt and Peirce has retained a flavor all its own. Founded in 1884 to serve the Harvard man, it immediately attained primacy as an exclusive gathering place for upperclassmen. Around its pot-belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...
When Frederick Leavitt and Wallace Peirce opened their shop at what is now 1316 Massachusetts Avenue, they left an open tin of tobacco scraps on the counter beside the stove. Up the street, where Bob Slate's Stationery Store now stands, they operated a smaller shop under similar arrangements for freshmen. The proprietors tried different mixtures until they found one undergraduates particularly enjoyed. This was packed up in cake box tins for Leavitt and Peirce customers to take home. Later it was shipped to graduates, who passed it among their friends, establishing the brand abroad. Soon Leavitt's found itself...
...sided World Series was no sooner over than the hot-stove league got off to a flying start. In the front offices of baseball, the moneymen began shifting managers so fast that a man hardly had time to read the small type in his contract; a fan could spend all winter wondering what had happened to his team. Among the changes...
...Cecil M. Dunn, 48, was hired away from RCA-Estate Appliance Corp., of Hamilton, Ohio, to become president of St. Louis' Magic Chef, Inc., biggest U.S. stovemaker. He replaces Arthur Stock-strom, 62, who becomes board chairman. Dunn started in the stove business 27 years ago as a door-to-door salesman for Estate, became Estate's president in 1952 after it was taken over by Noma Electric Corp. (now Northeast Capital Corp.). Dunn pulled Estate out of the red with a sweeping cost-control and product-improvement program. This year he negotiated the sale of the company...
Easy Popper. Pre-seasoned popcorn, in an aluminum-foil package that can be popped by putting the pan-shaped container on the stove, has been put on the market by Top Pop Products Co. of Detroit and Taylor-Reed Corp. of Glenbrook, Conn. The foil expands as the corn pops, keeps the popped corn hot for an hour. Price...