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Goizueta's anonymity ended after he became a protege of another Coke legend, former CEO Robert W. Woodruff, who became increasingly impressed by the intensity and integrity of the man from Havana. With Woodruff's influence, Goizueta was tapped in 1981 to run the Atlanta-based company. At the time Coke was an omnipresent but floundering symbol of American business and culture. Subsequently, Goizueta became one of the most highly regarded of all CEOs, having turned one of the world's most nonessential consumer products into a money spinner with annual sales of $18.5 billion. "No one loved the Coca...
Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, was a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Insti-the Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University in Georgia...
MCDOUGAL FOUND HIS NEW FUNDING IN JANUARY 1982 by buying a controlling interest in the Woodruff County Savings & Loan Association in Augusta, Arkansas. Since new laws allowed S&Ls extraordinary latitude in making loans with their federally insured deposits, McDougal began buying more land and building developments. He also renamed the S&L, once again turning to a favorite President for inspiration: Woodruff became Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. He opened a flagship office in Little Rock and began seeing the Clintons socially again (Bill had won back the Governor's job in 1982). Thus McDougal happily agreed to hold...
Eager to quell speculation about the death of reported CIA agent Fred Woodruff, officials in the Republic of Georgia say he was killed when a soldier, refused a lift, fired once at the car Woodruff was riding in as it passed...
...Hunt and Judy Woodruff...