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That was how the President of the U.S. came last week to appear before the A.M.A. in Manhattan's Astor Hotel with a plain-spoken report on the recession ("Not all our economic troubles are over by any means") and some strong ideas about what business and labor could do to help the economy. He nominated a "whole kit and caboodle" of economic notions "for oblivion." Items...
...mother, a sister of Lady Astor and the late Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, was one of the five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia...
MANHATTAN'S ASTOR PLAZA, bogged down for lack of funds, will be rescued bv First National City Bank, third biggest in U.S. Bank will take over lease on Park Avenue site, between 53rd and 54th Streets, where Vincent Astor intended to erect $75 million slab skyscraper (TIME. Oct. 1, 1956). will put up a building...
...oldest of these, the American Management Association, has blossomed from only twelve conferences in 1949 to 1,200 courses, seminars and conferences this year. This fall it opened a $2,000,000 Academy of Advanced Management at Saranac Lake, N.Y., also offers courses at Manhattan's Sheraton-Astor Hotel and in nine other cities. Its programs are broadly divided into studies of basic-management principles, organization-building, planning and controlling, and appraisal of operational performance. They include a deadly earnest game in which five teams of executives battle to win shares of a mythical common market. Like an adult...
...king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize of $1,400 will be offered for the best design of a "proposed British...