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...England. That was a total of 192 hours, and the cast was on-camera for 130 of them. A strict believer in the authority of the director (in this case, Marc Daniels), Olivier did his job with quiet docility, making minor requests: he had his "brandy" changed from Coca-Cola to tea. But he soon became as exhausted as the fugitive priest himself, and called in a doctor to give him a vitamin injection (the doctor wrote out a bill for $15 and misspelled Olivier's name...
Died. The Lord Invader (real name: Rupert Westmore Grant), 47. Trinidad-bred Calypso king, a master of ribald improvisation, whose creations included World War II's ubiquitous Rum and Coca-Cola; of complications after surgery; in a Harlem hospital...
Poor Adjustment. When he retired in 1928, Cobb's financial future was assured: he. had invested much of his salary (up to $60,000 a year) in blue-ribbon stocks -among them Coca-Cola and General Motors. But he adjusted poorly to retirement, restlessly moved from California to Nevada and then back to his native Georgia. "You cannot eat baseball and sleep baseball and study baseball year after year and then just stop like that," he once explained. "It's in the bloodstream. You crave it. You can't get along without...
...Coca-Cola's new chairman and chief executive (he will also retain the presidency), Lee Talley, 59, will have more work to do-but he can hardly have more enthusiasm for it. Talley has been with Coca-Cola since he left Atlanta's Emory University has a firm respect for the company's 75-year traditions and the required zeal to conquer the world for Coke. Taking over from retiring Chairman William E. Robinson, Talley is the first man to hold both top posts at Coca-Cola, will probably continue Coke's diversification (Minute Maid orange...
...companies, and, in the censored press of Dictator Franco, he gets away with it. Acting through intermediaries, March owns or controls Spain's tobacco and gasoline monopolies, a major bank (Banco Central), the principal brewery, chemical companies, mines, shipyards, steel plants, power and oil companies, and even a Coca-Cola bottling plant. He has a stake in the Institute Nacional de Industria, the state-owned agency for industrial development that controls and invests in private industry with state capital. Outside Spain, he controls weblike holding companies in London and New York, has a 25% interest in the Swiss international...