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...vice president of Manhattan's Allen & Co. investment banking firm, White made himself heard back home in Denver in 1964 by parlaying $100,000 of his own money into control of Colorado Milling & Elevator Co. He then shook up Denver's old guard with some financial wizardry that enabled him to take over the venerable Great Western Sugar Co. He has since merged his two companies into the Great Western United Corp., a diversified $259 million-a-year food products firm, of which he is both chairman and president...
...quickly moved up to executive committee chairman and then, in 1965, to chairman and chief executive. He found he was running an overstaffed, 95-year-old company with outlets in 18 Eastern states but with a sleepy attitude and outdated refinery equipment. Anderson shook off the sleep, cut back on staff, ordered a $100 million modernization program. Then, on a fishing trip with Chairman Charles S. Jones of Richfield Oil Corp., he worked out a merger that linked Atlantic with the Los Angeles company. The agreement between the two was a scant five pages long to cover a $1.2 billion...
...ride from a friend of someone I knew on the plane. The man, born in Georgia, had a Wallace sticker on his car. He drove us back to his house for a drink and while there said, "Excuse me, I have to wash my hands. I shook hands a while back with a nigger." Of course, I thought it best to say nothing to him about his politics. But three days later I feel the same way about the whole GOP convention...
Heroic Incisions. Take the case of Tommy Gorence, 16, a 6-ft, 195-lb. high school basketball player from Oneonta, N.Y. Last February he was elbowed in the abdomen and doubled up with severe pain, but he shook it off. A second elbowing put Tommy into the University Hospital in Syracuse, where surgeons trying to sew up his lacerated liver discovered that it was cancerous. Since the cancer was found to be incurable, Tommy was referred to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a possible transplant...
Spitballing, or brainstorming, is something like a group-therapy session in which the patient is the product and the doctors are the admen. Recently, TIME Correspondent Edgar Shook sat in on a brainstorming meeting at Chicago's North Advertising Inc. The patient: Flair, a new Paper Mate pen with a nylon tip. Among the doctors: North President Don Nathanson, Creative Director Alice Westbrook, Copy Chief Bob Natkin and Copywriters Steve Lehner and Ken Hutchison. The dialogue, somewhat condensed: Natkin: We have what I think must be the first graffiti advertising campaign, which we've been running in teen...