Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chauncey William Wallace ("Tex") Cook is a little like the distressed fellow in the television commercial who says, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." Cook heads General Foods, which is having trouble digesting all that it has swallowed. Earlier this year General Foods wrote off a $47 million loss on Burger Chef Systems and Rix Systems, a pair of acquired hamburger and roast beef sandwich franchise operations that ran afoul of overcrowding in the fast-food business. As a result, one of the world's biggest processors of food (last year's sales...
...Neither Cook nor other company officers can expect to collect any executive bonuses this year. That expectation, together with the earnings drop, left them in a dyspeptic mood, and somebody had to take the blame. Last month President Arthur Larkin, 55, took early retirement under pressure, and Cook, 62, already the chairman and chief executive, became president as well. Says Cook: "We have to do the surgery, get it over with, and get on with the business...
...Cowboyin'," the cook confides to the eager kid, "is somethin' you do when you can't do nothin' else." At its best moments The Culpepper Cattle Co. puts across several such gruff insights about a way of life now long past...
...underrated film version. But Culpepper is less about growing old than coming of age. Ben Mockridge (Gary Grimes) is barely past his teens when he talks Trail Boss Frank Culpepper (Billy "Green" Bush) into taking him along on a drive. Ben is hired on as "little Mary" (cook's helper), and he has to work his predictable way up from there...
...getting pretty good with the dishwasher," says Dr. Weese, an expert on Chaucer, "and I'm a pretty good cook too, but you lose your steam. You look up and half the day is gone, and all you've done is wash the dishes...