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...months ago, and who had hoped to get the G.O.P. nomination for mayor of New York, decided that there was too little left for him to do around Pepsi. He resigned to "conquer new fields." Pepsi will continue to be run by Alfred N. Steele, 49, a onetime Coca-Cola vice president who succeeded Mack in the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Equinox | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Greenwich, Conn. (pop. 38,000), barbers posted a new price scale: shave and a haircut, two bucks. And rising costs wiped out another price landmark. In Philadelphia, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. upped its prices by 15? a case, thus forcing retailers to charge 6? for a bottle of Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shave & Haircut, Oh Boy | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Kostelanetz' easy-to-take versions of classics and pop tunes soon made him as much of a habit with a section of the U.S. public as Coca-Cola, cigarettes and convertible coupes. To catch his listeners' jaded ears, he mixed the flashiest symphonic devices of conservatory and concert hall with new electronic tricks picked up from radio engineers. With the help of a battery of microphones turned up or down for the proper blend ("We couldn't do it without the microphone"), Kostelanetz' music took on "sounds and sonorities that didn't exist before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mix Master | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Last week, in Toni's honor, the midgets drank Coca-Cola from her Scovill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champion of the Sound | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...talented gentleman by the name of F. Bam Morrison descended on Wetumka (pop. 2,500) to prepare for the coming of "Bonn's United Circus Shows." He got the Boy Scouts to sponsor it. The Meadors Hotel saved 20 rooms, a grocery ordered 100 Ibs. of frankfurters, the Coca-Cola Co. dozens of cases of pop. A truckload of hay was deposited on the circus grounds to feed the elephants. F. Bam Morrison sold $250 worth of advertising for the circus program; while he was working at it, the hotel donated his room, the Wide-A-Wake Cafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Mysterious Americans | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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