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...Broadway musical based on 100 years of White House history seemed like a Yankee Doodle dandy idea. And 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would have the services of Leonard (West Side Story) Bernstein, Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, a Bicentennial theme and almost $1 million in backing from the Coca-Cola Co. Alas, a pre-Broadway tour met with disastrous reviews. Despite considerable reworking, when the show opened last week in New York City it was plain that Coke had bought fizzle, not fizz. Observed TIME Theater Critic Ted Kalem: "The British burned the White House in 1812, and Lerner...
...calls--we were tuned into 13 media markets in Georgia and Florida and throughout the South. The first call comes in and one operator jumps up with a big grin and grabs the mike before somebody could do anything about and beamed 'We just received $5,000 from the Coca-Cola Company...
Another important member of the commission is J. Paul Austin, chairman of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company and of the Rand Corporation, and director of the Adela Investment Company of South Africa. Austin originally sponsored Carter in the Trilateral and later served as his campaign finance chairman. Still another Carter campaign confidante was Richard Holbrooke, managing editor of Foreign Policy and the president-elect's choice as the new ambassador to Italy...
...Strangelove. Dr. Strangelove is the definitive Cold War satire, perhaps the blackest of apocalyptic humor. It is one of those films, and there are few others, where every line seems just right. And quotable. "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that," Col. "Bat" Guano tells Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than...
There are about 35,000 seats in Fenway Park. During the World Series by far the largest bloc of those went to Boston corporations; the Gillette Company, the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and three banks--the First National Bank of Boston, the National Shawmut Bank and the State Street Bank and Trust Company. Each had held thousands of season tickets for the entertainment of favored customers and friends, and the Red Sox front office had offered two Series tickets for every season ticket each company owned. Season ticket holders (including some individuals) collected roughly 20,000 of Fenway...