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...press, which abounds in advice to readers on their physical, mental and marital symptoms, spurned their dental troubles until 1956 when a young (32), crew-cut Cincinnati dentist named Peter Garvin decided to fill the cavity. Three months after its first appearance in Columbus' Ohio State Journal (circ. 80,834), Dentist Garvin's column (title: "Your Teeth") was picked up by General Features Corp. and offered to newspapers across...
Five months later, when Dentist Garvin's home-town Cincinnati Times-Star (157,409) started running his bylined weekly column and published a picture and thumbnail sketch of its author, the Cincinnati Dental Society objected that "Your Teeth" was a "weekly advertisement" and thus violated its code of ethics. Last August the dental society's twelve-man council voted to extract his membership card...
...GARVIN MENNEN San Francisco...
...owned 55% of the company, took control of the distillery. The price: $20 million in cash. Jack Daniel's 54-bbl. daily production is only a drop in Brown-Forman's (500 bbls. daily) bucket. But the name is well worth the price. Brown-Forman President George Garvin Brown carefully and promptly announced that the Motlows will still run Jack Daniel's in the same old way. But it was still the kind of news to sadden whisky sippers everywhere, and none more than those in Tennessee. Wrote the Nashville Tennessean: "It would not be entirely accurate...
...with the senior partner of his law firm, and has almost domesticated his fear of failure (sometimes, though, the beast still growls dangerously from the chimney corner). This somewhat nervous idyl is broken by a man Anson Page has never even met-a great and aging American novelist called Garvin Wales, literary master of Southern sordidness. For years Wales has depended on a brilliant New York editor named Philip Greene, who served the novelist not only as friend but as a kind of Madison Avenue muse. Now that Greene is dead, the novelist's wife suddenly accuses Greene...