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...never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear in its condemnation, the New York Times said: "Our children's children will still be paying the price for the evil which he brought into the world...
...risked $40 million trying to bail it out. Under empire-minded Jack Frye, T.W.A. had expanded too fast, and piled up debts; retrenchment had trimmed its employees from 17,000 to 12,000. Morale was zero. Damon helped restore it by assuring the survivors that he carried no ax. Said he: "I'll judge everything by three standards: 1) how good a job is done, 2) how much it costs, and 3) how it helps the overall harmony." Knowing the tendency of departments to expand, he added: "Our slogan will be empire-building in reverse...
...practicality and adaptability. "Much more than a run of successful men, the successful women executives show a flair for moving with the situation ... If a business woman meets violent disagreement from a man she knows only slightly, she cannot shame or flabbergast her opponent without being labeled a battle-ax . . . She is always a salesman on the side . . . Successful women know who they are: they don't confuse themselves with Joan of Arc or Sarah Bernhardt or Florence Nightingale and, unlike some male executives, they don't confuse themselves with the President of the U.S. or God Almighty...
...breakfast the Borden family ate before Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and "gave her parents 40 whacks" [TIME, Jan. 12]: Lizzie gave her father...
Lizzie Borden took an ax...