Word: coca-cola
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...with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major, publicity-churning crises. Trouble was that she had picked on two absolutely living dimpled dolls-Eddie Fisher, that wholesome, bubbly Coca-Cola boy, and his child bride, Debbie...
...space, pushed sales up some 35% (fiscal 1957: $219,011,532). A onetime professor of marketing at the University of Chicago, Palmer joined Field's in 1936, became president after he turned down an offer to become board chairman of Montgomery Ward. ¶ Lee Talley, 56, president of Coca-Cola Export Corp. since 1954, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co. to succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after Atlanta's Emory...
...Britain, where you find an intense anti-Americanism-more intense I should say than in France, where heaven knows it is strong enough. Yet, with all this the circulation of Reader's Digest (that last infirmity of the American Way of Life) steadily mounts; the consumption of Coca-Cola steadily increases; American musicals run interminably and, in almost every aspect of life from television to pornography, an increasing American influence may be discerned...
...Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh ham and pot likkah. And he replaced the emotional ingredients of The Hamlet's grand, grotesque romance-half arsenic, half cantharide-with a conventional love story that is at least as sweet as Coca-Cola...
Symbols of Liberty. Imperceptibly, the glad grew smaller. On Greek Independence Day, Teacher Durrell found his blackboard shrouded in crape with the message: WE DEMAND OUR FREEDOM ! Among the first symbols of liberty in modern Cyprus were Coca-Cola bottles, with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right...