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...addition to Patriarch Charles N. Teetor, Lothair and Ralph are important in the company, vice presidents. In the old frame house Charles uses what used to be the parlor, Lothair the dining room, Ralph the kitchen...
...Teetors come of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and their frugality is legend in Indiana. The Teetor offices are in an old-fashioned frame house on the same block as the factory. Once a representative of a Manhattan investment house went to interview them and broke his pencil while taking notes. He threw it into a wastepaper basket whereupon a Teetor dived for it, remarking, "We can use this around here...
...Perfect Circle directorate are Charles N., Ralph R., Lothair, Macy 0., Dan C., Don H., Herman and John H. Teetor. In Hagerstown's population of 1,262 are many other Teetors. Practically all male Teetors work for the company...
...Last year Perfect Circle spent $351,000 in advertising, this year it will spend more. The result has been increasing replacement business to offset the declining needs of manufacturers. Lothair takes a big interest in departments other than that of sales, is considered ''the next-in-line-Teetor...
...Ralph Teetor, Lothair's cousin, has been blind since boyhood. This did not prevent him from graduating from University of Pennsylvania with honors in engineering or from designing most of the company's patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...