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...Nance, Packard got one of the ablest salesmen and shrewdest analysts of new markets in U.S. industry. In four years he had built Hotpoint's sales from $20 million to $200 million, made it one of the stiffest competitors of G.E.'s own lines of freezers, refrigerators, stoves, etc. (TIME, Nov. 26). While G.E. welcomed this kind of aggressiveness, Nance ran his show so much like an independent kingdom that his elbows stuck out in G.E.'s hierarchical command. When Nance, by turning down a G.E. executive vice-presidency last year, refused to take his place...
...patrons of literature, but the hard facts of life make them behave like ordinary businessmen. Crowded into a corner, they reluctantly admit that 'first-rate creative writing makes for risky publishing ventures, that to remain solvent they must stay off Parnassus and scurry about the market place. The shrewdest ones kowtow to a composite little woman. The best studies and most educated guesses indicate that she is a high-school graduate of about 35, and that one out of three of her class has been to college. Publishers and booksellers regard her with brooding affection because she buys about...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
Anna Rosenberg is a 5 ft. 3 dynamo and a resolute wearer of outlandishly feminine hats which cover one of the shrewdest heads in public life. A Hungarian-her father made furniture for the Emperor-who was brought to the U.S. at ten, she has never quite disposed of her Budapest accent. She has been alternately charming or browbeating people into accord since her junior year at New York's Wadleigh High School. There, during World War I, she persuaded boys at two neighboring high schools to end their strike over compulsory military drill which lengthened the school...
Died. Edward Joseph Kelly, 74, four-term mayor of Chicago, shrewdest of the four big Democratic city bosses of the last generation;* of a heart attack; in Chicago. Born in a tough "Back of the Yards" slum, roughhewn Ed Kelly was a master of the oratorical foot-in-the-mouth. He once addressed Admiral William Halsey as "Alderman Halsey," introduced the State Department's protocol expert as "chief of portico," lauded Scott Lucas (in a speech nominating him for Vice President of the U.S.) for being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts...