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...York's Idlewild Airport on a sunny morning sped Charles Luckman, 40, the hustling, $300,000-a-year president of Lever Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...
Wonder Boy. What had caused the jet-propelled wonder boy of U.S. selling and Lever Bros, to fall out? Certainly Luckman had made many enemies. He had ruthlessly cleaned house when he became president in 1946; he shook things up again last fall when, in moving the headquarters to New York (TIME, Oct. 17), he left several hundred Lever employees behind. Furthermore, in London's dignified Unilever House, Luckman's genius for self-promotion had not gone down well. But Unilever had seemingly been more than willing to overlook all that as long as Lever Bros.' profits...
Died. Robert E. Ringling, 52, last surviving child of the five original Ringling Bros.; of a heart ailment; in Sarasota, Fla. In 1934 Baritone Ringling gave up a mildly successful career with the Chicago Civic Opera to help head the money-losing family circus; with cousin John Ringling North, he put the big top back on a paying basis, lost out as president after an extended family quarrel and legal battle, ended as chairman of the board...
...Sempach burghers themselves had ordered the windows removed in 1814 to let more light into their hall. Afterward they were sold to a composer for a handful of pocket change and their travels began. One of the Rothschilds bought them in 1853. Duveen Bros., the London art dealers, got hold of them in 1897 and offered them to the Swiss National Museum for $1,250 apiece. While the Swiss deliberated, the elder J. P. Morgan snapped them up. In 1942, Honegger bought them at an auction of part of the Morgan Collection, had them fitted into window frames...
...Davis Bros.' hustling President John F. O'Hara, 36, hopes to cut into the Friday fish market, which he helps to supply, simply because this year he ran into a shortage of mackerel, normally 70% of the fish he cans. Fishermen were pulling in plenty of tuna along the East Coast, but that was not much help: it was the dark, oilier tuna (horse mackerel to fishermen), and could not compete with the West Coast's white tuna...