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...takes a peculiar blend of enterprise, prudence, knowledge and dedication, and husky (6 ft., 182 Ibs.) David Rockefeller has shown himself possessed of it. Born to millions, he has used the opportunity that was his by inheritance to apply himself to hard work and public service. Not for him the easy, casual, politically profitable familiarity of his older brother Nelson. ''I work because I enjoy work," says David, "and because it is my duty to use whatever talent I have for a worthwhile purpose." He does not question the worthwhileness of international banking...
...this year for his large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London. Picked during the Depression to run Great Universal, he has built it into the largest retailing enterprise outside the U.S.-a British blend of Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney that last year netted $34 million on sales of more than $560 million...
Likable Enemies. An amiable blend of Colonel Blimp, Pukka Sahib and strategic genius, onetime Schoolmaster "Uncle Bill" Slim rose from the ranks to officer status during World War I. One of his first commands, as he recalls it with humor and affection in Unofficial History, was as head of two companies of infantry, pursuing the rear guard of a Turkish army across the Tigris River...
...born in four colors and with high hopes. All he needed, said the new magazine's President and Editor Rodney C. Campbell, was $1,000,000 (he had no trouble raising it) and 125,000 readers willing to pay $1.25 per copy for a monthly blend of history and news. But not enough of the initial subscribers stayed around. Campbell's $1,000,000 ran out quickly, and the 125,000 charter subscribers dwindled to 7,000. Last week, after just four issues, USA*1 gave up the ghost. It merged with another publishing experiment: A. & P. Heir...
...years ago, Dallas earth-moving Contractor Robert F. Thompson flipped on a hotel radio, found that he had struck Dullsville. Being a government monopoly, Swedish radio had a heavy accent on culture-worthy classics. What the Swedes really needed, felt Thompson, was a competing station offering an easier U.S. blend of pop music, commercials and more news. Dallas Tycoon Thompson decided to provide it. Buying a 3,300-ton German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost of $700,000. He anchored...