PERSONNEL: Up the Ladder

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¶ Robert M. (for Mondell) Ganger (rhymes with Hanger), 48, was elected president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold and Kent), as Herbert A. Kent, 65, moved up to board chairman. Ganger, born in Greenville, Ohio, worked his way through Ohio State University playing the trombone, got a job as an office boy in what later became the ad firm of Geyer, Cornell & Newell. He made a reputation with his accurate market analyses and catchy sales campaigns, became a partner in the firm (renamed Geyer, Newell & Ganger). Two years ago, Lorillard lured him with an executive vice presidency. Ganger's latest project: the launching of Kent (TIME, March 24).

¶ Morse G. (for Grant) Dial, 56, was boosted from executive vice president to president of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Fred H. Haggerson, 68, who was both president and chairman, will continue as board chairman. Reared in Fargo, N. Dak., Dial graduated from Cornell, worked for the Brownville Board Co. before joining Union Carbide in 1929 as a sales supervisor. Later, as manager of the Vinylite divisions, he helped make Union Carbide the world's largest producer of plastics.

¶ Edward Ellsworth Stewart, 56, was named president of National Dairy Products Corp., succeeding L. A. Van Bomel, who became chairman. A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Stewart did a hitch in the Navy during World War I, then got an engineering job with the Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Co. of Pittsburgh, subsidiary of National Dairy. In 1944, Stewart was named vice president of National Dairy to run Midwestern ice-cream and dairy operations, was promoted to executive vice president six years later.

¶ Harold R. ("Bill") Boyer, 53, will resign this week as chairman of the Aircraft Production Board and return to General Motors to head a manufacturing division.