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...Coca-Cola has avoided the deadly sin of most modern business enterprises: over-organization and overcentralization. The only thing that Coca-Cola sells, outside of the U.S., is its secretly compounded concentrate. This is the same as it was in the day (1886) of Dr. J. S. Pemberton, who invented Coca-Cola-it was then green and supposed to cure headaches. The raw material is shipped to a dozen Coca-Cola-owned plants around the world, and sold to bottlers...
...father, Ernest Woodruff, who in 1919, for $25 million, bought the Coca-Cola company from Asa G. Candler, who in turn had got it from Inventor Pemberton for $1,750. Hardy old Ernest Woodruff was accused by his enemies of every sharp business trick in the book, and suspected even by his friends of chewing broken Coca-Cola bottles to strengthen his teeth. Son Bob is a chip off the old block. The steel of Young Bob's determination early clashed with the flint of his father's will, and the resulting sparks could have lit up Atlanta...
...clock all of Belle-Vista's 91 patients had been put to bed and the 47-year-old private sanatorium lay dark and quiet. It was about then that Nurse Eileen Pemberton smelled smoke...
...Broadway producer-director (80 plays) for 37 years; in Manhattan. Ex-Reporter (Cleveland Press) Hopkins boosted into the limelight such famed personalities as John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Playwrights Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Philip Barry, the late Producer Brock Pemberton and Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones...
Died. Brock Pemberton, 64, Broadway producer who put on the early plays of Zona Gale (Miss Lulu Bett), Sidney Howard (Swords), Maxwell Anderson (White Desert) and Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Kansas-born onetime reporter for William Allen White's Emporia Gazette (1908-10), Pemberton first introduced to theatergoers such stars as Walter Huston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. His biggest success came late in life (1944), when he produced Broadway's fifth longest run, Harvey...