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Another athlete who appeared on the cover of TIME in the same period was Ben Eastman, the crack Stanford middle-distance runner. Eastman was 25 when he retired from track and took a job doing credit work with the Oakland Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co. In 1946, he opened his own business, the Atlas Equipment Co., distributor of Westinghouse air compressors in the San Francisco area. Now 41, he usually gets up to take a 6 a.m. jog of a half mile or so to keep in condition. Of the link between college and business careers, he says: "One thing...
When the awards were handed out, the loudest applause was earned by the winner of Matt Ridgway's special prize (an atlas, a book about Paris and a book about trains) for the student who distinguished himself for the "best international spirit in his relationship with his comrades." The winner: twelve-year-old Michael MacKinnon, son of a wing commander in the Royal Canadian Air Force...
Karsh first tried his hand at industrial work two years ago when he was asked by Canada's Atlas Steels, Ltd. to illustrate the firm's annual report. He discovered that he had to spend two or three days planning his shots, but could never ask a worker for permission to take his picture until just a few minutes beforehand: "Otherwise they would wash up, slick down their hair, and look most unnatural." He needed dozens of flashes for some shots; on others used only the glow of hot steel. Karsh was fascinated, went back a second time...
...more Odium told them, the less they were sure they understood. It was true, he said, that such a merger had been discussed, and it was true that Atlas, an investment company which examines all responsible propositions, had looked into it thoroughly. In fact, Odium had two sets of independent experts check it for both Consolidated Vultee, which he controls, and for Atlas. The experts, he added, had brought in their reports, but the directors of both companies had not yet seen them...
...features, the SEC for any merging of securities, the Defense Department for air contracts, and the Justice Department for possible anti-trust angles. "As of today," concluded Odium, "no conclusion has as yet been reached." But one stockholder, pointing out that mere rumors of the merger had made Atlas stock rise several points some weeks ago, cried: "Let's have more romance like this...