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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Sued by an infuriated Coca-Cola guzzler who claimed to have found bits of glass in his favorite drink, the Coca-Cola Co. last week summoned Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of the Museum of Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.). Curator Fattig, with the blessing of a university which owes most of its wealth to the late Coca-Cola Tycoon Asa Candler, hurried off to a courtroom in Birmingham, Ala. By the time he arrived, looking like a sunburned Julius Caesar in a Palm Beach suit, the case had been settled out of court. But Curator Fattig, determined to do his part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Coca-Cola Curator | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...priceless asset to Coca-Cola's claims department is Perry Wilbur Fattig. When a customer says he was harmed by something he found swishing around in the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig stands ready to eat what the customer did. Most cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Coca-Cola Curator | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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