Today, tour officials, a Williams family business manager and a corporate spokesman were put in a position of defending the sisters' image.

He retired with a reputation that makes him a credible corporate spokesman.

Of the nearly two dozen corporate spokesmen who were interviewed for this article, none would discuss the question.

He also became a corporate spokesman on financial issues.

His behavior is certainly not in keeping with the kind of behavior we would expect from a corporate spokesman.

He died of heart failure, a corporate spokesman said.

"We do not respond to speculation," said a corporate spokesman at headquarters in Chicago.

But many corporate spokesmen, reached at home yesterday, said the weather's impact had been minimal.

In Dallas, a corporate spokesman says the developer has no comment.

He has been an author, an actor, a corporate spokesman and a full-time enigma.