Lloyd E. Cotsen sometimes refers to himself simply as a “soap salesman,” a description modest by many degrees. He’s a successful executive who has been known to leave the cares of business behind for an archeological field trip to Greece or the Mideast. He’s rich. And, by popular account, he’s “knock-out” handsome. Cotsen graduated from Princeton University with a history degree in 1950, did graduate studies at Princeton, went on archeological digs in Greece and, in 1953, married Jo Anne Stolaroff. After he completed Harvard Business School in 1957, the couple moved west and Cotsen went to work for his father-in-law, Emanuel Stolaroff, founder of Natone Co. Four years later, … Continue reading Donna K. H. Walters