Word: colas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been well tailored. Coty's Grover Whalen was the son of a prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true to the Alger tradition. They waived a testimonial dinner; they were too busy. Railroader Robert S. Young, also chosen, was too busy even to attend the awarding of the scrolls...
...Manon in 1937, came home to the U.S. when the war began. She sang in opera in the U.S. and Latin America, was in Mexico City recovering from an operation when she got her first break. She was practicing her scales in her hotel room when a Coca-Cola representative, attending a Rotary Club meeting in a room below, heard her and signed her for a two-year radio program...
Divorced. By Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 60, one of baseball's alltime greats, whose early dabbling in Coca-Cola stock brought him a small fortune: Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb, 57, mother of his five children; after almost 30 years: in Reno...
...summer smells of popcorn and gasoline swept across Manhattan's hectic heartland-Times Square. Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest...
Along the way, Gunther gleaned many a curious fact. The annual per capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru. Los Angeles ("Iowa with palms") is the world's second largest Mexican city...