Business: Good Humor

Good Humor Corp. of America declares dividends whenever the idea pops into the busy head of Michael J. (''Mike") Meehan. Last week Mr. Meehan passed out a 50¢ dividend. Most of the half dollars clinked into Mr. Meehan's personal pocket. A few found their way to his good friend Alfred E. Smith.

A Good Humor is a diminutive brick of ice cream coated with chocolate or coconut and frozen onto a stick. It is sold on roadsides in and about New York. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami, Tulsa, Detroit,...

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