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Died. Philip Knight Wrigley, 82, chairman of the world's largest chewing gum company (1976 sales: $370 million) and owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Elkhorn, Wis. The only son of the founder of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Philip Wrigley became president of the family business at 31, and head of his father's baseball team in 1934. The Cubs introduced ladies' days and radio and TV coverage of games, but the team has gone 31 years without a pennant under Wrigley's somewhat eccentric proprietorship...
...Glenn Wm. Simmons...
...WM. S. CARROLL # 512" was waiting at the curb while the rush-hour traffic crept forward in the darkness at the foot of the John Hancock Building. The press bus was on time, if I wasn't, and its fog-covered windows held forth some hope of reportorial warmth inside, even if those 14 black letters and numerals on its side dimmed my hopes that this would be a presidential campaign press junket worthy of Tim Crouse, Hunter Thompson or Teddy White...
...unfair to pick on economists rather than anybody else-except that they are, after all, talking about money. And as often as not it turns out to be our money. Here is a master clarifier-by-smokescreen discussing the recruiting possibilities of a volunteer army if wages, military (Wm) are nudged seductively in the direction of wages, civilian (We): "However, when one considers that a military aversion factor must be added to We or subtracted from Wm, assuming average aversion is positive, and that only a portion of military wages are perceived, the wage ratio is certainly less than unity...
...leading manufacturers are considering still another change. Chicago's Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the largest chewing-gum maker, is one of the few producers to have kept the price of its basic five-stick pack at a nickel. Market analysts predict that the company will soon raise its prices, perhaps shifting to an eight-stick pack for a dime. On the strength of such forecasts, Wrigley's stock one day last week jumped more than nine points...