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Date: 15 Jul 1953
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0 76 ~ : July 15, 1953 A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of P. Lorillard Company was held today at the office of the Company, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. There were present Messrs.: H. A. Kent W. F. I. J. L. D. F. A. J. Halley Hopewell H. Peak J. Blacknall Gruber A. Henderson G. Searle James M..E. Dawley H. B. Parmele F. M. Walson Anna F. Woessner, Secretary Mr. Kent, Chairman of the Board, presided and the Secretary acted as Secretary of the meeting. On motion duly made and seconded, the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with. On motion of Mr. Henderson, seconded by Mr. Hopewell, it was unanimously RESOLVED: That the Transfer Books of the Registered Three Per Cent Debentures of this Company, due March 1, 1976, shall be closed at three-thirty o'clock P. M., August 15, 1953, for the payment of interest thereon due September 1, 1953, and shall be reopened at ten o'clock A. M., September 2, 1953. On motion of Mr. Hopewell, seconded by Mr. Gruber, the follow- ing advertising expenditures, all of which are a part of and within the sum of money authorized by the Board of Directors at a meeting held October 15, 1952, for an advertising program during the year 1953, were in all respects approved, ratified and confirmed: Estimates of Lennen & Newell, Inc. as follows: #479, dated May 8, 1953, covering television advertising of OLD GOLD Cigarettes, sponsorship Chance of a Lifetime, May 21 through August 13, 1953, at a cost of $391,600.15; #481, dated May 25, 1953, covering cost of Herb Shriner telecast advertising OLD GOLD Cigarettes, April 4, 1953, in the sum of $1,500.00; #492, dated June 16, 1953, covering newspaper advertising of OLD GOLD Cigarettes during June and July, 1953, as therein set out, 0 at a cost of $235,685.62; 1-+ #493, dated June 11, 1953, covering advertising of OLD GOLD p Cigarettes in August 1953 issue of trade paper VEND at a cost 46 of $430.00; ~ #494, dated June 15, 1953, covering production costs for spot
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M radio advertising of OLD GOLD Cigarettes, as therein set out, at a cost of $542.74. 77 On motion duly made and seconded, the meeting adjourned. Secretary

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