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...recruited their own salesmen and instructed them to see that their product gained a prominent position on liquor-store shelves. The salesmen's zeal gave the company a reputation for ruthlessness. Some oldtimers say that teams of Gallo men would stride into a store and tough-talk the proprietor into keeping competitors' wine on less visible shelves. Others insist that Gallo salesmen merely used economic incentives, such as offering a month's free supply if Gallo wine were given good display...
...many Paraguayans, Auguste Joseph Ricord, a short, balding French Corsican with an avuncular manner, was merely the proprietor of the Paris-Nice motel and café near Paraguay's somnolent capital city of Asuncion. To various international law-enforcement agencies, however, Ricord was much better known as the owner of a string of aliases (Mr. André, Lucien Darguelles, "El Comandante") and a police record that includes a bust for theft in prewar Marseille, a 1950 French conviction as a "dangerous" wartime Gestapo agent, and links in more recent years with prostitution in Argentina and Venezuela. Not long...
Died. Howard D. Johnson, 75, founder of the roadside restaurant and motel chain that bears his name; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dissatisfied as the proprietor of a drugstore and newsstand during the '20s, Johnson went looking for a product "I could call by my own name." He settled first on ice cream, opened a beachside stand, then in 1929 launched his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass. He then combined the Howard Johnson name and know-how with money from other small entrepreneurs by franchising the familiar orange, blue and white highway rest stops across the country. They...
Died. Helen G. Bonfils, 82, board chairman of the Denver Post, sometime actress and patron of the theater; in Denver. The younger daughter of Frederick G. Bonfils, colorful co-owner of the Post with Harry Tammen, "Miss Helen" was proprietor and principal stockholder of the largest and most important paper in the Rocky Mountain states for nearly four decades. She took time out from her publishing duties occasionally for appearances on the Denver and New York stages, but her more important theatrical role was that of angel and producer...
International Lawn Tennis Federation president Allam Heyman and World Championship Tennis proprietor Lamar Hunt came to an agreement yesterday, paving the way for the world's top players to compete in the major championships as well as the Davis...