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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Riesman's brilliant account of evolution of mankind into "other-directeds" [TIME, Sept. 27] is perhaps the reason and cause for the super-mediocrity of most people, most jobs, most professions, even most autonomous...
...Player Sidney Wood Jr.: "A player known to have no other source of income, can . . . travel the tournament trail in relative luxury throughout South America, Europe, Egypt, India and most of the U.S. ... He is often able to set aside some rainy-day savings gleaned from an expense account well in excess of the legally prescribed $15 daily...
Melbourne, by Lord David Cecil. A first-rate account of Britain's last big Whig, who said: "This damned morality will ruin everything'' (TIME...
...elsewhere, are banking heavily on President Eisenhower's personal popularity. They must fight off criticism of G.O.P. farm policy, and to do so, Homer Ferguson has taken a straight, shrewd Michigan line. Says he: "The rigid price-support program placed most of its emphasis on farm crops which account for less than 10% of the farm income for Michigan farmers...
...timberlands and mills in Scandinavia, and as war approached turned to Newfoundland, where he bought International Paper's big plant at Corner Brook, and 7,000,000 acres of timber. At war's end, Sir Eric started diversifying into paper bags, paperboard and other products, which now account for almost 20% of his production. The $250 million Bowater empire now employs 16,000 in some 40 companies spread through eight nations of the free world...