Word: leawood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marilyn Hodes Leawood, Kans...
DIED. Joyce C. Hall, 91, founding father and president (1910-66) of Hallmark Cards, who cared enough to build the very best company of its kind; in Leawood, Kans. Hall's inspirations, "flavored with the vapor of past experience," created a business that now makes about 8 million cards daily, and $1 billion each year. Through exhaustive market research (which counseled against using peacocks, geraniums and the word mighty), he changed much of his line each year, inspecting each card himself and paternalistically overseeing the welfare of his employees. A civic-minded booster of his beloved Kansas City...