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...Columbine. In two hours he was in balmy Augusta, Ga., and within 15 minutes after getting to Mamie's Cabin was out on the fairways, to shoot 15 holes before dark in a threesome that included Investment Banker Cliff Roberts and Manhattan Businessman (Cluett, Peabody & Co.) Barry Leithead. Early in the evening while playing bridge, the President was called aside by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who told him that prospects were improving for a satellite blast-off that night. During the evening the President was on the phone repeatedly, keeping up with the Explorer countdown...
...home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead, up from vice president in charge of sales to replace Chesly Robert ("Bob") Palmer who, at 65, had decided to take life easier. (He will remain a director...
...Leithead (rhymes with wheat bread) is Palmer's choice. Since 1929, when he went to work for Cluett, Peabody as a floor salesman in Chicago, he has run the San Francisco and New York offices, and put in the past year as boss of sales. Leithead has a salesman's persuasive tongue, the casual manners of an ex-cowhand (he worked on his father's ranch in Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When...
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