Changes of the Week

P: James M. Skinner Jr., 41, moved from television vice president to president of Philco Corp., the same job his father held from 1929-39. After attending the University of Pennsylvania ('32-'34) Skinner went into Philco as a factory expeditor, rose to sales manager for accessories, headed the Philco radio-radarelectronics school during World War II, then became sales veep for refrigerators. He succeeds James H. Carmine, who is retiring.

P: Henry Samuel Beers, 57, moved from vice president to president of Hartford's Aetna Life affiliated Companies (second largest full-line insurance group after Travelers). He replaces Morgan B. Brainard, who becomes chairman. A Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College (Hartford), Beers was headed for law when he was persuaded to take an actuarial exam, went to work for New York's Home Life. Aetna hired him in 1923, made him vice president in 1936 shortly after he headed the commission that wrote Connecticut's unemployment-insurance laws.

P: Marshall S. Lachner. 41, was named president of the Pabst Brewing Co. to replace Harris Perlstein, who will continue as chairman. Born in Illinois and educated at Northwestern and Wharton School of Finance, Methodist Elder Lachner knows little about beer. But he is an old hand at selling, was with Colgate-Palmolive for 16 years, where he ended up as vice president of the keenly competitive soap division. Chief reason for the change at Pabst: it slipped from third to fourth place, behind Schlitz, Anheuser-Busch, Ballantine.

P: Carl McFarlin Sr., 60, was named president of the 201-year-old paintmaking firm of Devoe & Raynolds, one of Financier Louis Wolfson's holdings. A mining engineer, born and educated in Alabama, McFarlin managed coal mines in Tennessee, became president of Tennessee Products & Chemical Corp., which merged with Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott. His predecessor, E. W. Endter. who got the job after resigning the $50,000-a-year presidency of the California Oil Co. to help Wolfson battle for Montgomery Ward, quit Devoe & Raynolds to return to the oil business.

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