Word: hannagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President H. B. Nicholson up to board chairman. Bob Woodruff reached outside the company for a new president to replace himself as chief executive officer. His choice: William E. Robinson, 54, the smart, hard-driving and affable ex-publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and chairman of Robinson-Hannagan Associates, which handles Coke's public relations. Bill Robinson, an old friend and golfing companion of Woodruff's, knows his way around in politics as well as business. An early Eisenhower backer, he introduced Ike to the Augusta National Golf Club, helped convince Ike that he could...
...York World-Telegram local ad manager that the Hearst chain grabbed him, made him assistant general manager. In 1936 the New York Herald Tribune hired him away as ad manager, eventually made him executive vice president and publisher. A year ago, after the death of Steve Hannagan, Robinson left the Trib to boss the publicity agency. He has resigned from Robinson-Hannagan, but the firm will continue to handle Coke's public relations...
...Substantial Benefits." Bob Young swung back with a sweeping blow against the Central and 15 of its directors. He filed suit charging that the directors misused Central funds by hiring a publicity firm (Manhattan's Robinson-Hannagan Associates) to help fight him and by spending company money to solicit proxies for the Central meeting, May 26. Young also charged that four big banks (J. P. Morgan, the Mellon National Bank, First National of New York City and Chase National) were deriving "substantial benefits" from the fact that their heads are Central board members. The railroad itself, Young noted, operated...
...Hannagan showed him how. He operated his own news agency, wired out bulletins of legitimate news, never let anyone forget where it came from. Sample : FLASH JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON THE POLO FIELD HERE THIS AFTERNOON DON'T FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE. He combed Miami Beach high schools for pretty girls, made tabloid editors happy with pictures of them romping in bathing suits beneath the palms. Union Pacific sent him out to look over the site of an Idaho ski resort it planned to name Ketchum after the nearest town. Snorted Hannagan: "The columnists will soon be cracking...
Three Lives. Steve Hannagan spent money as fast as he made it. He liked good living, was a fixture at Manhattan and Florida nightspots, where twice-divorced Hannagan was oftenest in the company of Cinemactress Ann Sheridan. In work & play, he traveled at such a pace that one friend said: "He lived three lives. When Hannagan flew to Africa it was, as usual, on business (for Coca-Cola). There, last week, his speedway pace caught up with him. At 53, in his hotel room at Nairobi Kenya, Hannagan died of a heart attack. In tribute, spoke Roy Howard: "No training...