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...teamwork, J. Paul Getty is the last of a vanishing breed: an autocratic tycoon who runs his own show, has nothing but contempt for the modern, hemmed-in executive and the committee concept of running a business. "Most of the people in the top management of American business," says Lone Wolf Getty, "are promoted clerks, engineers and salesmen. I like Benjamin Franklin's advice: if you want it done correctly, do it yourself. I do it all myself. How many others are there like...
...empty bottles. Prospect had electric lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to thirty-five as the discouraging hours pass, then six give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another six are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent to admit one lone hundred percenter (there to be pariah or sycophant for who knows how long). Above, in the library, like secret Teutonic Norns, the ICC meets in constant absolutely closed session, omnipotently spinning fate. Below them, twenty-three one hundred percents remain, half of them Jewish. In Valhalla's lofty and concealed recesses...
Captain Bob Cleary again led the varsity scoring with four points on two goals and two assists. Dave Vietze also scored twice while Dick Fischer, Lyle Guttu, Terry O'Malley, and Bill Collins all added single tallies. Tom Walsh scored the lone B.C. goal...
Spencer Jourdain at 157 and Karl Kludt at 130 both lack experience, but both are exceptionally hard workers who should benefit from Lee's coaching. Tom Oxnard at 137 placed in the New England Scholastics last year, but he too lacks experience. Bill Hurley, the lone heavyweight, is a former Tabor Academy wrestler...
After casting the lone vote in favor of continuing the paper, Editor Gates told a capitalist-press reporter: "I intend to fight for the paper's continued existence. In any case, the Daily Worker will cease to exist when it alone says so." Sure enough, the paper appeared on the day it was to have died, said nothing about ceasing to exist or even about the party's orders. At week's end Gates was passing the same old hat, hoping to keep working the Worker until he gets the results of his appeal for its reprieve...