Monday, Dec. 07, 1953

Changes of the Week

P: Vincent ("Vinnie") Richards, 50, onetime wonder boy of tennis who teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship at the age of 15 and later won the national professional singles championship four times, was named vice president of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Richards joined Dunlop in 1930, when the company first entered the tennis-equipment field.

P: Robert M. Ganger, 49, who left the advertising firm of Geyer, Newell & Ganger and became president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent) in 1950, then resigned to "regain his health" last May (TIME, May 11), went back into the advertising business as chairman of the board of St. Louis' D'Arcy Advertising Co., 16th biggest U.S. ad company. P: Marlin G. Geiger, 56, was elected president of the Davison Chemical Corp. to succeed R. L. Hockley, who resigned to become vice president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. Educated as a chemical engineer, Geiger was a vice president of Westvaco Chemical Corp. and United Chemicals, Inc., and president of W. Va. Charcoal Co. before joining Davison as executive vice president in 1947.

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