Word: leschly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This bizarre collection of hard-selling creatures all work for-and owe their existence to-a rather harmless-looking fellow named George Lesch, Colgate's president. While not exactly a white knight, Lesch, 55, has certainly proved to be something of a whirling tornado at the U.S.'s second largest soap company (first: Procter & Gamble...
...prospect as new chairman: austere, brainy Ford Vice President Robert Strange McNamara, 44. ¶Edward Herman Little, 79, retired as chief executive officer of Colgate-Palmolive Co., a post he has held since 1938. He will remain chairman of the board. Succeeding Little as chief executive is George Henry Lesch, 50, who was elected Colgate president last April. Little joined Colgate 58 years ago as a salesman, made his reputation by selling overseas. Today the company's 42 foreign branches account for half its sales of $600 million, more than half its last year's profits...