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...sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...
Credit for Kermac's climb goes largely to President McGee, 52, a tall, rawhide-tough wildcatter aad geologist (University of Kansas, '26) who first went to work for Phillips Petroleum, was its chief geologist by the time he was 30. McGee did so well that when he left the company to hook up with Oilman Bob Kerr in 1937 Phillips hated to let him go, in 1943 agreed to an unusual deal to keep a string on his talents. It promised to underwrite 75% of the company's drilling costs in return for only...
...helps businessmen in three ways: direct loans, getting Government contracts, technical aad management advice...
Five years ago Professional Wrestler Ralph ("Wild Red") Berry was injured in the ring and had to spend months in a hospital. To while away the time he read a few books-the Bible, Plato, Aristotle aad Kant, he says. Last week in Chattanooga, Wild Red was wrestling again...
...many marriage proposals; not too homely, lest they jump at the first offer) travels all over the U.S., talking to half a million women a year, handing out new products for housewives to "use and compare." Though P. & G. has a long list of product names already patented aad ready for use, its ad agencies often run contests to get new ones. They must be easy to remember, simple to pronounce on the radio, fit well into advertising slogans ("Tide's in; dirt...