¶Emery M. Lewis, 57, moved up to president of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., fourth largest U.S. tobacco company (Viceroys. Kools, Raleighs. Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco). The son of old Vaudevillian Walter Russell Lewis, Ohio-born Emery Lewis managed to get through grammar school before he quit to work in a paper mill. At 20 he started keeping books for American Tobacco Co., joined Brown & Williamson in 1927 as a comptroller, quickly moved up, in 1941 became vice president for sales. Lewis takes over from Timothy V. Hartnett, 63, who was named the first full-time chairman of the Tobacco...
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