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...Tokyo suburb one day last week, near the spot where a sabotaged railroad train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...before 600 lunching Los Angeles bigwigs one day last week rose Lever Bros. Co.'s plain-talking President Charles Luckman. He had something to say about the psychology of fear: the American people, he thought, were talking themselves into a depression...
Died. William Hulme Lever, second Viscount Leverhulme, 61: of an internal hemorrhage; in Minneapolis (while on a world tour). He was governing director (and son of the founder) of Britain's sprawling mercantile empire of Lever Bros. & Unilever Ltd. and its Dutch twin, Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V. (337 factories, 516 companies in 17 nation. with assets totaling $1.1 billion), among the world's leading* manufacturers of soap (Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy), edible oils (Spry) and margarines...
Everyone had different ideas on what was wrong. Some oldtimers at Butler Bros, thought Retailer Herberger had neglected the wholesale end of the business, which had been a moneymaker. Others thought he had scrambled wholesale & retail together until nobody could find his way through either. Herberger blamed his troubles on deadwood in the company -and hacked away. So many officers and employees left that gagsters called Butler Bros, the Montgomery Ward annex. Finally, aging Thomas Freeman, who was boosted to chairman when Herberger replaced him as president, quit in disgust...
...retail boss. Bespectacled, garden-loving Bert Prall was a tougher man than he looked. Before resigning as a Montgomery Ward vice president in 1946, he had stood up for 15 years under Sewell Avery-and had long been manager of hard lines. As boss of money-losing Butler Bros., Prall might find it was still hard lines...