¶ George Homer Gribbin, 51, senior vice president since 1956 of Young & Rubicam, third largest U.S. ad agency (first: J. Walter Thompson, second: McCann-Erickson) with estimated 1957 billings of $230 million, was named president, succeeding Sigurd S. Larmon, 67, who remains as chairman and chief executive officer. A small-town boy, Gribbin was born in Nashville, Mich. (pop. 1,374), graduated from Stanford University ('29), put in stints as a copywriter with Detroit's J. L. Hudson department store, the May Co., Bamberger's and R. H. Macy before joining Y. & R. in 1935....
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