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...mailroom clerk in the advertising agency of Ruthrauff & Ryan. While working at the job, he commuted to Philadelphia's Wharton School of Finance, ultimately earned both a business-school degree and an account executive's office at Ruthrauff & Ryan. At 28 he left a $25,000-a-year vice-presidency to form his own agency. Mahoney eventually disbanded the agency to become president of a top client, Good Humor Corp., left that for Colgate-Palmolive...
...early in 1961, John Kennedy urged him "to use the White House as a pulpit for public education in economics." Heller did-and Kennedy himself was Heller's first student. This book, Heller's first since he left the Administration two years ago for a $50,000-a-year income as a private consultant and professor at the University of Minnesota, is an admirable account of the political machinations that underlay the recent age of discovery in economics-and welcome not least because he writes with crispness, clarity...
...typical keep-'em-guessing Johnsonian performance. Boyd, who was given no hint of his elevation, had been offered a $100,000-a-year job as head of the Association of American Railroads. Until Johnson pulled out Boyd's name, the front runner in the press guess-stakes had been White House Adviser Joseph A. Califano Jr., who with Boyd helped push the bill through Congress...
...Ozarks, Winthrop Rockefeller may look upon Elder Brother Nelson's battle in New York as a polite drawing-room exercise. Winthrop, 54, an Arkansas cattle rancher, is squared off against don't-or-die Segregationist Jim Johnson, a Wallace Democrat who resigned a $20,000-a-year seat on the State Supreme Court to run for a post that pays only $10,000. Typically, Gentleman Jim drives into town, sighs into a loud speaker, "I love all of you and, oh, oh, I do need you," then begins hugging and kissing the crowd, men and women alike...
...George Hamlin, are largely advisory. With the two associates, he sits in on meetings of the five-man Executive Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, the student organization which produces nearly all of the plays at the Loeb. He helps Hamlin oversee divvying up the Loeb's $20,000-a-year budget...