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...that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front of it. It is one of the finest pictures in the world. In fact, it's a bloody marvel!" The program had now run 20 minutes over schedule, but Sir Gerald added: "You know, I get excited...
...have more of Gerald Kelly." Attendance at the exhibit increased sharply. But the London Daily Express primly editorialized that Sir Gerald "brings honor neither to his position nor to himself by descending to the use of vulgar expletives." Commented unrepentant Sir Gerald: "Did I say that the Man in Armour was a bloody marvel? Well, it is a bloody marvel...
...main point was that management can increase efficiency in mass-production operations by helping employees gain more satisfaction from their work. As an executive of Armour & Co. put it, "The philosophy conveyed by this article is possibly as dynamic an idea as the steam engine was an invention...
Arthritis and asthma victims, and all other users of ACTH, got some good news from Armour Laboratories last week. Highly purified "HP ACTHAR Gel" brings quicker relief than older forms of the hormone, can be injected more easily, and will cost less. Typical five-day asthma treatment will drop from $31.25 to $12; the 21-day dosage for acute early rheumatoid arthritis from...
Knives by the Carload. Keating, the son of an Austrian immigrant who became a successful tinsmith, got through Chicago's Armour Institute with twelve athletic letters and a cum laude in mechanical engineering. He thinks the best way to render his own products obsolete, and thus create new markets, is to keep improving his designs. He pays Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy $75,000 a year to think up new styles for handles, new color combinations, etc. As a result, in cutlery alone, he is now producing an average of 300,000 knives a week (ranging from...