Stanley Burnet Resor, 75, white-haired dean of 20th century advertising, moved from president to board chairman of J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's biggest ad agency (current billings: some $200 million). He will continue as chief executive officer. Into the presidency went Norman H. Strouse, 48, who left a Seattle Post-Intelligencer advertising job to join J.W.T. in 1929. As one of the firm's 95 vice presidents, Strouse in recent years has been in charge of the agency's Detroit office.
B. (for Benjamin) Brewster Jennings, 57, was elected Socony Mobil Oil Co. chairman, succeeding George V. Holton, 65, who retired. The grandson...