Word: leithead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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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