Word: candlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcoholic. Asa Griggs Candler Jr. was rich. In 1886, when he was only six years old, his druggist father secured the soft-drink formula on which he built the Coca-Cola fortune. But, says Asa Candler, "prosperity and affluence present hazards of their own. My story was the old familiar one of falling in with the wrong crowd." He became a drunk...
...three years, though he continued to attend church and pray vigorously, Candler sank deeper & deeper into alcoholism. Then two things happened. In his private zoo, a Bengal tiger which "had killed two or three trainers and handlers" was scheduled to be shot. Candler asked that the beast be turned over to him and set out to tame him by himself. "I came to the conclusion that his rage was due to fear ... It seemed to me that only one power was great enough to tame him, to drive out his fear-the power of kindness. I spent long hours with...
...Naturally," Candler reports, "I thought a lot about this. It dawned on me that God was similarly trying to get past my fear...
Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
...hundred of these guys is ducking," said a draft official in Chicago, where about one-third of the selectees weren't showing up for physicals. In New York, with a 23% no-show, Selective Service Director Candler Cobb growled menacingly about calling in the FBI, then quieted down as newspapers discovered that many of his delinquents were already in the service (one had just left for the Pacific). Cases of actual malingering were few: a handful of inductees in Virginia were caught trying to flunk intelligence tests; in Washington, a 19-year-old told the judge he had stolen...