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Banker Bernardez had been the head of the Avanzadilla brain trust, and a shrewd political adviser to Leader Luisa Maria, 34, the handsome, impetuous Duchess of Valencia. Cautious and levelheaded, the old man kept the organization running in spite of its hotheads. "I have ten children of my own," he would say, his blue eyes twinkling, "so I can easily manage a hundred more...
Answer Man. Duffy abides by his own rule. Two years ago, when the American Tobacco Co. parted company with the agency handling its $12 million account, Duffy flew back from a Florida vacation before the news was even official, was soon hammering his facts at American Tobacco's shrewd, hard-to-sell President Vincent Riggio. When Duffy was done, Riggio said: "I had a list of ten questions to ask you. You have already answered them all." Duffy got the account, loyally chainsmokes Luckies...
...Odium's willingness to unload Barnsdall mean that Sunray got the short end of the bargain? Sunray's Clarence Wright did not think so-and his reputation as a shrewd trader is almost as legendary as Odium's. Wright, a onetime ready-to-wear store owner in Oklahoma, City, has jockeyed Sunray through many ups & downs, including bankruptcy in 1931. He built it to one of the top U.S. oil companies, with assets of $136 million and profits of $15.6 million...
Prescott H. Voss, purchasing agent for the University, treated a third aspect of "Staff Functions of Industry," buying. The shrewd purchasing agent, Voss recommended to the audience that congregated in the Kirkland House Common Room, is a man who has served in the sales service of industry...
Seldom does Manhattan's sleek, sharp Representative Vito Marcantonio, a tireless party-liner, make much sense on the floor of the House. But last week, as a one-man minority, he had a chance to deliver a shrewd blow while he enjoyed the discomfiture of the two majority parties. "It is obvious to everybody," he said, in his shrill and rasping voice, "that everybody wants civil rights as an issue but not as a law. That goes for Harry Truman, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party...