Arthur Kallet
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Arthur Kallet (December 15, 1902 - February 24, 1972) was a director of Consumers Research who became the first staff director of Consumers Union and founder of its magazine Consumer Reports.
When CR head F.J. Schlink fired striking employees whom he accused of conspiring with advertisers against consumers, Kallet, who had coauthored a book entitled 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs with Schlink, joined with Amherst College professor Colston Warne, who would chair the CU board from 1936 to 1979, to found the new organization.
In 1957 Kallet broke with Warne and left CU to form The Medical Letter, Inc., and in 1961 Buyer's Laboratory.
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