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...Connie Mack didn't try to kid the fans. He began the season with his usual prediction : his Athletics would finish last in the American League. After all, they had spent nine of the past 12 years in the cellar...
...week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been well tailored. Coty's Grover Whalen was the son of a prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true to the Alger tradition. They waived a testimonial dinner; they were too busy. Railroader Robert S. Young, also chosen, was too busy even to attend the awarding of the scrolls...
...Razor's Edge, he objected to the music written for a Montmartre café scene. He whistled a new tune, which was picked up by a studio accordion player and transcribed for orchestra. The studio got 5,000 letters asking about the song. After that Tin Pan Alleyman Mack Gordon wrote a slushy verse to go with Goulding's mushy tune...
Most big U.S. corporations are so widely owned that stockholders and top management are complete strangers to one another. To Walter S. Mack Jr., president of Pepsi-Cola Co., this seemed a sad thing. By establishing a chummier relationship, Mack thought he might turn Pepsi-Cola's 22,000 stockholders into 22,000 active Pepsi-Cola boosters...
Last week Mack started getting chummier. In Jacksonville's George Washington Hotel, he threw a party for Southern stockholders. About 100 people showed up. (To forthcoming parties in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, nearly 14,000 stockholders have accepted invitations.) After a talk by President Mack on Pepsi's operations stockholders were treated to ham, cheese, roast beef and chicken sandwiches, coffee, Pepsi-Cola. President Mack himself, looking not unlike Movie Butler Arthur Treacher, passed around a tray of hors d'oeuvres . One happy stockholder's verdict of the party: "It kind...