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...shoe polisher in each room. If these gimmicks sound a little too mechanical, at the expense of human service, there will also be multilingual doormen and desk clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees and knows everything and can do almost anything. He must combine the talents of a living telephone directory, tourist guide, psychologist, businessman, detective, procurer, blackmailer and infinitely tolerant uncle...
...After a 2½-year search for a president, Mack Trucks Inc., oldest and largest independent U.S. truck maker, found its man last week in McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Vice President Nicholas Dykstra, 47. Dykstra, who joined McDonnell only this year after 26 years at Curtiss-Wright, is an all-round executive with experience in finance, manufacturing, purchasing and sales. No kin to Ford President John Dykstra, Mack's new president has been entrusted with making the truck company's estimated $35 million plant construction and automation program...
Nothing fascinates an Indian politician like trying to guess who will succeed Pandit Nehru, now 71, and the only Premier the country ever had. The name most mentioned lately has been Morarji Desai, 64, who is India's able Finance Minister, leading prohibitionist and all-round ascetic (he eats no meat, fasts 36 hours a week, once gave up sex for 20 years). Last week Nehru clipped Desai's career back so far that the guessing game was wide open again...
...African Bobby Locke, Player picked up pointers on his short game. Later, from Ben Hogan, he learned how to grip his clubs properly. Says Hogan: "Gary is doing what I have long advocated: working hard on fundamentals and then working the fundamentals into his game. He is a fine, all-round player." In 1956, Player borrowed money to finance his first trip abroad. Since then, he has won the British, Australian and South African Opens, earned more than $100,000 playing golf. The top 1961 money winner-with $45,217, he now is $11,175 ahead of Palmer-Player...
...game. They come to watch. Believe me, if there's any slackening of interest, we'll find ways of curing it-and in a hurry." Certainly the surest way of curing basketball's troubles, if troubles there are, is to find more men with the all-round talents of Oscar Robertson. To him last week came the ultimate accolade from one professional to another. "I'd pay money," said Syracuse's Coach Hannum, "to watch Oscar Robertson play basketball." And for so long as even Robertson's rivals feel that way, the fans...