¶Donald Slichter, 57, was elected president and chief executive officer of Milwaukee's Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., eighth largest life insurance company in the U.S. (insurance in force: $9 billion). A graduate engineer (University of Wisconsin, '22) and amateur gardener (roses), Slichter, brother of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, has been a vice president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat-footed by rejoining McCann-Erickson, from which he...
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