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...Anchor Hocking Corp. (1981 sales: $953 million) has been flooded with calls for its various lines of vacuum seals for glass food jars since the Tylenol tragedy. "Customers have even come down to the plant to speed up their orders," notes Senior Vice President Vincent Naimoli. PCM Corp. of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (1981 sales: $10 million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that is based just on the queries we've had in the past three weeks." The company...
DIED. Benjamin B. Selvin, 82, long-playing bandleader and record company executive, who made or produced more discs-some 9,000 titles-than anyone else; in Roslyn, N.Y. Dardanella, a heavy-beat foxtrot that Selvin recorded in 1919, was the first disc to sell 1 million copies. He helped launch many stars, overseeing Bing Crosby's first solo recording; during one instrumental break, Selvin recalled, "I suggested that Crosby whistle. He's been whistling ever since...
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DIED. Sidney Margolius, 68, pioneering consumer affairs writer whose The Consumer's Guide to Better Buying (1947) sold 1 million copies; of a heart attack; in Roslyn, N.Y. Among his 20 books was The Great American Food Hoax (1971), an investigation of the food industry. His syndicated column on consumer affairs appeared in major newspapers across the country...
DIED. Eben Roy Alexander, 79, TIME'S managing editor for a record length of time, eleven years (1949-60); of pneumonia; in Roslyn, N.Y. A graduate of St. Louis University who served in the Marine Corps during World War I, Alexander worked for the St. Louis Star for four years and for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 14, eventually becoming assistant city editor. He came to New York City and TIME as a writer in 1939. Equally at home in subjects as diverse as politics, religion, music, foreign affairs and the classics, Alexander became assistant managing editor...