Word: lingane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...will succeed retiring President Lingan A. Warren, 66, as chief executive officer...
...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...