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Three Medals. At Cortina last winter, Toni cut a noticeable slice out of Russia's spectacular march down the ski trails. Standing just a little straighter than his rivals, demonstrating a spectacular sense of balance and feel for the snow, he won a gold medal in all three Alpine events (giant slalom, slalom and downhill). He is expected to win this season's big downhill honors in Europe and plans to come to the U.S. this month to race at Aspen, Colo, and Stowe...
...Director Alan Handley at a pace so breathless that even Winchell's self-importance often had little time to come through. Many less entertaining variety shows have managed to survive. But last week, when Winchell's latest Trendex slumped from his original 21.1 to 15.9, his sponsors, Toni and Old Gold, decided that the "little people" were thinning out. They notified him that they would drop his show when his option comes up in five weeks. Cost of tuning out: $75,000 in severance...
...Woolworth Hour (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). With Percy Faith, Doretta Morrow, Toni Arden, Ethel Smith...
...life with repentant Ethel. At week's end. Producer Max Liebman made a brave try at proving that it is still-partially, at least-a man's world with a tuneful tribute to the music of George Gershwin. But, again, the girls-led by Singers Ethel Merman, Toni Arden and Camilla Williams, Dancers Tanaquil LeClerq, Diana Adams and Patricia Wilde -practically elbowed the male performers off the stage...
...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...