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...happier town last week was Rock Springs (pop. 11,500), Wyo. No casual visitor would ever catalogue it as an art center. Union Pacific streamliners rumble through its heart, the streets are lined with 26 busy bars, and the town's big preoccupations are railroads and coal. But Rock Springs owns one of the liveliest collections of contemporary American art in the Rockies-some 275 paintings, lithographs and etchings by such artists as Frederic Taubes, Aaron Bohrod and Grandma Moses. And Rock Springs is busy collecting more...
Nobody was happier at the song's success than George M. McCoy, executive vice president of Borden Food Products Co., makers of Klim, a powdered whole milk. On a visit to Leopoldville two years ago, McCoy noticed that, after the bicycle, the phonograph was the natives' dearest possession. He got the owner of a local record company to help him write some lyrics in Lingala, the vernacular understood up & down the Congo River, set them to a jungle rhythm and had records made. The song...
Does the big corporation executive work harder than the man who owns his own company? Which is happier and healthier? Whose wife is better off? To find the answers to these and similar questions, Arthur Stanley Talbott, a California advertising man, questioned in top California executives ($35,000 a year and up). He checked the parking-lot attendants at their plants, spoke to their wives, secretaries and doctors, snooped around their golf and yacht clubs, even checked their medicine cabinets. Last week Talbott released his findings...
...husbands." In one month, Talbott checked on six executives who worked 90 hours a week. "In that month, and of that six, four got divorced." Unanimously, the wives agreed that they would prefer their daughters to marry "some kid with less ambition." But the hard workers themselves are much happier than the lazy ones. "If they had to choose between their wives and their jobs, they would take their jobs any time. They love the business luncheons and train compartments and long hours. They enjoy...
Amolsch arrived in Cambridge as Air Force sergeant in January of 1949. He liked the post immediately. He was even happier to discover that Harvard men "are good material to work with." He readily defends their martial qualities, the lack of which is a popular butt, by testifying that "Harvard turns out Licutenants just as good as those of any other school...