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Rich Man's Son. Getty had a good headstart on the way to his fortune. His father, George Getty, a wildcatter, left an after-tax estate of more than $8,000,000 when he died in 1930. About 90% of it went to Paul Getty's mother, $1,000 to charity and only $500,000 to Getty because the father disapproved of his marital escapades. Nevertheless, Getty persuaded his mother to wager the family's stake on the chance of becoming an oil major-leaguer by buying into oil companies. He took over the Pacific Western...
...Mahoney dredged up three charges. He produced competing diesel-locomotive manufacturers to testify that a wartime order from the War Production Board made G.M. virtually the sole producer of long-range diesel locomotives. This, one witness said, gave the Detroit giant a "tremendous headstart" on postwar business, and as a result, G.M. today supplies 76% of all U.S. diesel locomotives. The next day Harold Hamilton, former G.M. vice president supervising its locomotive division, pointed out, however, that the company had actually lost ground during the war, its share of the market dropping from...
...from static because of the brilliance of James Mason's performance as Brutus and John Gielgud's as Cassius. Mason's portrayal of the incomparably noble man, whose decisions invariably prove fatal, has a grandeur which over-shadows the other principals. But the character has a distinct headstart, for alone of Julius Caesar's major roles, Brutus is free of the contradictions often unresolved in the other characters. Gielgud's Cassius, the perfect embodiment of "the lean and hungry look," is a fascinating mixture of virtue and venality. The same quality, however, is more obscure in the characters of Antony...
...From the actual plaintiffs and defendants he represents, Marshall gets not a cent; the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Fund (combined annual budget: $500,000) pay him a flat $12,000 a year to give first-class counsel to Jim Crow's "secondclass citizens." Marshall generally has a running headstart on opposing lawyers in civil rights cases; the law he made yesterday is today's precedent. Four of Marshall's victories have become the constitutional cornerstones of the Negro's new civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening the way to effective...
...Headstart. The Hudson Motor Car Co. kicked off the 1948 auto model season. It shut down its assembly lines to finish retooling for a "revolutionary" new model. Hudson plans to build a car only five feet high, yet with full headroom interior. Hudson, already delivering present models 90 days after order, anticipates a break in the sellers' market sometime in the next few months. It hopes to get into full production of its new model in several weeks, thus score a beat on its larger competitors...