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...Perez, 35, presidential candidate of the Popular American Revolutionary Alliance, victory seemed just out of reach. The youthful, center-left candidate gained an unofficial 48% of the votes cast in Peru's April 14 election, a better than 2-to-1 lead over Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes Lingan. But Garcia needed an outright majority to win, and the two rivals faced the prospect of a runoff election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Garcia Plucks a Victory | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...after graduation, at 31 was made head of Macy's huge, inexpensive ready-to-wear department. He next took a turn at advertising, but soon found it was not his kind of selling: "I thought a lot of what went on was just air." When he met Lingan Warren, the autocratic genius who had built Safeway from nothing into a huge chain, he made such a good impression that Warren asked him to go to California. Magowan had worked up to be Warren's administrative assistant when he was asked to go back east and help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Salesman's Salesman | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...will succeed retiring President Lingan A. Warren, 66, as chief executive officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Safeway stores, clerks often see a slight, spectacled shopper who isn't a regular customer but looks vaguely familiar. The shopper is Lingan Alan Warren, 60, the $386,000-a-year president of Safeway who spends much of his time checking up on his stores by shopping like any housewife. Says he: "I'm just a customer like anyone else. If I ever forget that, I'm through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Customer's Man | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Virginian named Lingan Alan Warren to put his ideas into practice. They set up the MacMarr chain in the Pacific Northwest, merged it with Safeway, later acquired Sanitary Stores in the South. Last year the Merrill-Warren chains grossed $399,322,000, earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Safeway Invades New York | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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