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...Argus-eyed and suspicious-minded operatives of Willmark seem to be everywhere, checking on employee morality, trustworthiness, courtesy and efficiency for more than 5,000 U.S. and Canadian employers, including Montgomery Ward, Allied Stores, F. W. Woolworth, Schrafft's and Sears. Every major U.S. auto manufacturer engages Willmark to "shop" the showrooms and report on which models the dealers are pushing hardest. Willmark men and women also watch for gypsters and- short-change artists at Disneyland concessions and patrol Playboy Clubs tempting fluffy-tailed Bunnies to break the strict rules against dating customers after hours...
...began borrowing heavily to buy Massey-Ferguson stock. His fellow Canadians did not have much faith in Taylor; the betting at the Toronto Club was 5-50 that he would go broke. The odds looked prophetic when he soon overextended himself. But, with superb ingenuity and timing, he formed Argus so that he could sell its stock to raise money to pay off his loans. As partners, he took in some prestigious names: W. Eric Phillips, head of the Duplate Canada subsidiary of Pittsburgh Plate Glass; John Angus McDougald. chairman of Avco of Canada; and M. Wallace McCutcheon. then chair...
Millionaires' Roost. Taylor seldom appears at Argus' mausoleumlike Toronto offices, much preferring to work out of the comfortable gatehouse of his 600-acre suburban Toronto estate. A rider and horse lover since college, he operates Canada's most successful racing stable on his own (says Partner Phillips: "I detest horses"), has put Canada's horse racing on its feet by reorganizing it into a few big, profitable tracks. As a private investment, he is developing Lyford Cay in Nassau into a restful roost for such multi millionaires as Henry Ford II and CBS Chairman William Paley...
...their duffs") and the new wave of Cana dian nationalism ("Have you ever heard of anything more outdated?"). A believer that older men should move on to new pastures to make way for bright younger men, he is ready to give up his four chairmanships at Argus (though probably not the presidency) when he reaches 65. Then he intends to turn his full attention to his first love: horses...
...recently resigned from Argus to join Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as a Cabinet member...