Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having moved up to become boss of Republic's wiremaking division at $12,000 a year, he turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that really appealed to his talents: a job with Manhattan's top-drawer management consulting firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Burns bagged a partnership within a year (still a company record) at age 34, became a corporate confessor for 30 of the nation's 100 top companies - including RCA. He dissected every department, hopped in between the balance sheets, shook up managements. Says he : "Consulting is a science because...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Khrishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt-chaser...
Another who shuddered, at reading the item, was Cashier Allen. In alarm, he phoned Grassi and asked him to return the money. When Grassi could fork up only $50,000 of it, Allen worried for three weeks, finally confessed to American Express officials, and then to the police. Had Allen given Grassi the money to speculate on promise of a share of the profit? The hapless Allen would only say, "I had no idea he was a gambler . . . He lived at the Georges V Hotel. How could I have any suspicion that he wasn't honest...
ADVISE AND CONSENT (616 pp.)-Allen Drury-Doubleday...
Most novelists know so little about real-life politicians that they could not and should not dare take a crack at a political novel. No novelist, but a knowing man on the subject of politicians, Allen Drury, U.S. Senate correspondent for the New York Times, thus stepped into a near vacuum in U.S. letters. His Advise and Consent is the August Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and Author Drury thought he could afford to be adamant when the B.O.M. asked him to cut his great prose pudding. So it comes to the reader with all its fat intact...