Personnel

Last week the following were news:

A. & P. executives have been known to wager that not one person out of ten could name A. & P.'s president. "Outside" man for the country's biggest grocery chain, John A. Hartford nonetheless eludes public appearance, is not listed in Poor's Register of Directors. Few housewives know that it was he who launched A. & P.'s first economy store in 1912 on a busy corner in Jersey City and opened 7,500 more in the next 900 days. In Manhattan where he belongs to no clubs, lunches alone at the Biltmore on crackers and milk, he is known and admired from a distance in financial circles. Unlike his brother George, who is A. & P.'s chairman and reticent "inside" man, President John Hartford does hold posts outside the family business. He is a director of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. and several other large companies. Last week President Hartford was elected a director of Chrysler Corp.

In 1931 Arthur W. Milburn moved up from the presidency of Borden Co. to a new office known simply as Chief Executive. Last week when his successor, President Albert T. Johnston, resigned on account of ill health, Mr. Milburn returned to the presidency. The office of Chief Executive was abolished.

James Alexander Gray, vice president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., brother of Board Chairman Bowman Gray, was elected president, succeeding S. Clay Williams who became vice chairman.

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