Word: bowman
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...MARVEN BOWMAN...
Long Tradition. Bowman Gray is the product of a long and inbred family tradition at Reynolds?though his family is no direct relation to the Reynolds clan...
...waged much of the battle against American was Bowman Gray's father, a hardworking, up-from-the-ranks salesman who became Reynolds' sales manager, moved on in 1924 to president...
Young "Red" Gray worshiped his father and followed in his steps. In 1918, at the age of eleven, he went to work as a leaf trimmer for Reynolds during summer vacations. (Another Reynolds employee, though less interested in it as a career: Bowman's younger brother, Gordon Gray, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary, former president of the University of North Carolina and now national security adviser to President Eisenhower.) At Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Bo Gray persuaded fellow students to smoke Prince Albert after he discovered that cigarettes were forbidden. After graduating from Chapel Hill ('29) he went to work...
Instead, the few filters already on the market (e.g., Brown & Williamson's Viceroy and Benson & Hedges' Parliament) began to get hot. Reynolds was ready with its own filter, developed under a team consisting of Chairman John C. Whitaker, President Ed Darr and new Sales Chief Bowman Gray. The man who had seen filters coming was Darr, who was impressed by their popularity in Switzerland during a vacation. But the man who decided when to roll was Gray. Reynolds' test panel had smoked 250 versions of the trial Winston over two years when Gray took a puff of a new blend...