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...consultants who used the MMPI with Bonneville Power Administration personnel, our answer to the invasion-of-privacy argument is: Just as a banker must ask personal questions to evaluate a credit risk, so must an employer ask personal questions to evaluate an employment risk. If personality tests such as the MMPI invade privacy, so do security clearances, medical examinations, reference checks, lie detectors, police records and employment interviews...
Good Risks. Is credit being stretched too far? The American Banker Association's delinquency figures have been gradually edging up, and mortgage foreclosures have doubled in the past four years (to 108,620 in 1964). Americans now typically spend 14.3% of their income to pay off their debts. While nobody knows for sure if that is too much of a strain, most lenders argue that the nation's rising levels of savings, income and sophistication prevent it from getting in too deeply. In addition, the major cause of the debt rise is that more people are buying houses...
Died. Louise Cromwell Brooks Mac-Arthur Atwill Heiberg, 75, first wife of the late General Douglas MacArthur, a Philadelphia banker's daughter who was the subject of a 1922 press report that widowed four-star General John J. Pershing threatened to exile one-star General MacArthur to the Philippines ("Poppycock," said Black Jack) if she married him, which she did, then divorced him on grounds of incompatibility seven years later; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Paintings & Pills. Mary Lasker has been interested in art ever since she was a girl. Daughter of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, she majored in art history at Radchffe, topped it off with a term at Oxford. She moved to New York to sell paintings for Gallery Owner Paul Reinhardt, whom she eventually married in 1926 (they were divorced in 1934). In 1940 she married Millionaire Chicagoan Albert D. Lasker, who headed Lord & Thomas, then one of the top U.S advertising agencies. Through Mary, Lasker discovered the world of art,' and together they began to amass their fine...
...Kansas City one day six months ago, Mrs. Cynthia ("Cindy") Kemper, 35, the indefatigable, vivacious wife of Millionaire Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., decided that it was high time "to take a good look at ourselves." So she called together a group of friends to talk about it. Diagnosis: "We are not a jumping-off-place for the West but a thoroughly civilized 20th century community with all kinds of people and all kinds of possibilities." Remedy: "Kansas City needs to feel the pride of creation...