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Jack Cole, president and chief executive of Coles Book Stores Ltd

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Jack Cole, president and chief executive of Coles Book Stores Ltd

Date6/16/1978

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Cole, Jack, 1920-1997 (subject)

Combs, Erin (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Jack Cole, president and chief executive of Coles Book Stores Ltd., invited shareholders at the annual meeting in Toronto yesterday to help themselves to any book they would like to have. He could afford to be generous, the company expects to open 30 new stores this year and the output of its publishing program is a new title every working day. The chain now totals 156 stores, 34 in the United States, and the firm is one of the two largest book-publishing companies in Canada.

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0039611F

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