Word: talley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stores, doubled total store space, pushed sales up some 35% (fiscal 1957: $219,011,532). A onetime professor of marketing at the University of Chicago, Palmer joined Field's in 1936, became president after he turned down an offer to become board chairman of Montgomery Ward. ¶ Lee Talley, 56, president of Coca-Cola Export Corp. since 1954, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co. to succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after...
Alibi. In Coral Gables, Fla., when Beverly Talley identified Robert G. Tardif as the man who was peeping in her windows, Tardif indignantly retorted: "She couldn't identify me. She was in the closet...
...People's Will. In Waco, Texas, Psychiatrist John E. Talley explained why people vote: "You don't vote for the man you think can win. You vote for the man you think can defeat the man you want to lose...
...year. She also turned down a lead in Broadway's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, "because I didn't want to scrub floors for a year." * Nonmusicians define a coloratura voice as one that plays musical chairs among all the right notes without ever sitting down. * Marion Talley was five months younger when she made her debut as Gilda...
Died. Giuseppe De Luca, 73, Rome-born operatic baritone, one of the brightest stars of the Metropolitan's "Golden Age"; in Manhattan. He sang in the world premiere of Madame Butterfly (Milan, 1904), was in the cast when Rosa Ponselle, Marion Talley, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons made their Metropolitan debuts, when Enrico Caruso sang his last aria...