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...advertising catchword "magic" has doubtful value; to Africans the word is linked with a mythical devil named Tokoloshe, who gets young girls pregnant. To get through to Africans who do not read ads in the press or see them on TV, Coca-Cola passes out free dresses with Coke bottles colorfully imprinted in indelible...
Then the defense called five Negroes who testified to Charlie's conduct at the ballpark on Ichauway Plantation. All agreed that Charlie Ware was not drunk. They said he had grabbed Coke Malone's arm to keep him from entering the spat between his mother and Bud Walker. The witnesses further agreed that Charlie left when Touchstone's man told the people to leave, and that Charlie did not curse at Touchstone...
...made under oath, he was not subjected to cross-examination.) The gist of his story contradicted that of the Sheriff's at almost every point. He indicated that during the afternoon of the Fourth of July he had had about three beers, that he had tried to prevent Coke Malone from getting into the fight by grabbing Coke's hand and walking him off the ball park. He denied cursing at Guy Touchstone...
...Church divorced Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Having dumped Vandy, the Methodists launched two new universities-Emory and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Atlanta's Coca-Cola King Asa G. Candler gave land and $1,000,000-leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed for Thomas Coke, another early bishop. Thus lured to Atlanta, Emory still drinks from the same bottle. Coca-Cola money accounts for about half its $70 million assets, and the current Coke king, Alumnus Robert Woodruff, is Emory's biggest single angel...
Although it overshadows such Southern universities as Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, Emory still ranks below the Southern likes of Duke, Tulane, Virginia, Vanderbilt and North Carolina. Bemused by its Coke money, Emory for years neglected to cultivate other givers, and now pays full professors badly enough to get a "D" salary rating from the American Association of University Professors. Unable to raid other faculties or fully expand its plant, Emory may need $100 million in the next decade to win the rank it wants-a place among the nation's top 20 universities. To get the university moving...