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...small profit margins and notoriously old-fashioned business methods, the launching of new firms is rare. Said one intrigued bystander about the Knopf-Haydn-Bessie venture: "[It is as if] the presidents of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford left their jobs to start an automobile company." Said one publishing bigwig, who lunched with Random House Boss Bennett Cerf a week ago: "When the rumor came up, Bennett's face was a real study...
...labor-oriented Democrats, all but gave up trying to hang failure of the Kennedy-Ives labor bill on the Democratic 85th Congress. No less a campaigner than Vice President Nixon warned that the issue would get all mixed up, could easily backlash to brand the G.O.P. as antiunion. Bigwig Democrats meanwhile whistled merrily, predicted a pro-labor vote that would swell the Democratic landslide. Fact was that the labor bossism issue was a sleeper and much of the whistling was in the dark. Many a candidate would not sleep peacefully until election night when he saw how the crosscurrents...
...notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale: someone was feeding the woman advance information. Her answers were all prepared; she could not lose. The stand-by rushed to a Dotto bigwig with the incriminating evidence and peddled his promise of silence...
...bucking TV in the evening with any strong radio competition; it fills the sunny hours unimaginatively with soap opera and such housewife pacifiers as Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter. At ABC, which dropped untold thousands in network radio last year, gloom is officially repressed. But one network bigwig groaned last week: "Network radio is just a ghost. They're doing horseradish. All we're doing is keeping the lines...
Alaska was growing, and so was Mike Stepovich's awareness of it. In 1950 he ran for a seat in the territorial legislature. He was elected to three terms. It was in the legislature, under the tutelage of an old friend and longtime Republican bigwig named John Butrovich Jr. ("Butro and Stepo") that Mike sank himself deep into Alaska's problems...