Word: colas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice a day the President talked by telephone to the White House staff. As for the rest, the days fell into pattern: lunch, a nap, bridge (with Humphrey; veteran golfing companion Bill Robinson, Coca-Cola president; and Ellis Slater, retired president of Frankfort Distillers), supper, bridge and bed by about...
...front by emphasizing market research. The Oklahoma-born son of an adman, Harper graduated from Yale ('38) and joined McCann-Erickson as an office boy. He shot up fast, became president in 1948 at 32. Since then, he has quadrupled the agency's billings (Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, Chesterfield, etc.) to $250 million last year, hopes eventually to push McCann ahead of the No. I agency, J. Walter Thompson...
...caucus room. Dozens of papers were scattered over the floor. In the entrance hall, piles of string-tied boxes and suitcases teetered perilously. Around the rooms, in wild disarray, stood an unmade day bed, the cold remains of a meager meal, a collection of half-filled rum and Coca-Cola bottles. Amid it all sat a tall, heavy-shouldered man whose massive head, topped by long, reddish-brown hair, gave him the appearance of an aging lion. Contented as a man in the plushest executive suite, American Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 65, probably the world's richest private...
...favorite is dark, stately Penelope Kitson, 34, a British divorcee and mother of three children. Still healthy and vigorous, Getty keeps in shape with a daily round of calisthenics, dyes his hair, has had his face lifted in a London clinic. He drinks sparingly of dark rum in Coca-Cola, constantly munches chocolates, does not smoke, and does not like others to smoke in his presence...
...station with scores of phone calls. Sample: "I've been watching that live commercial for months just waiting for something like that to happen. It was a rare moment." Perhaps too rare for Bergeron, who was worried about his sponsor. Said he: "I only hope the Coca-Cola people find it as funny...