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...colonel spared the Ministry of Fuel no expense in redecorating Scarcroft. A spacious new dining room was added, with fluorescent lighting. There was a smart new boardroom, deep red carpeting to cover the floor, a new $1,500 clock in the lodge tower and a $420 television set in the private staff dining room...
...decision was made in haste and apparently in considerable heat. Sir Geoffrey waited three days before he summoned Luckman's 23 top assistants to the company's Manhattan boardroom to break the stunning news. "We and Mr. Luckman," he told them, "have disagreed over future policy and have been unable to resolve our differences and we have had to agree to part...
...Henry went after everything and got nothing wears such a high polish that readers may scarcely realize it is essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks...
...almost 150 libraries, corporations and universities have become charter subscribers not because Heritage will "look impressive on boardroom tables," but because, in the words of Eddie Rickenbacker, through Heritage "a real job can be done, which will bring about untold good...
...late Grant Wood. Its readers won't have to do much reading: the magazine will be nine-tenths pictures. It will also be adless (Malcolm's idea, reluctantly approved by B.C.). Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal-it is designed to look impressive on boardroom tables-but figures that many a businessman will want to buy it as a gift (with his name as donor on the inside cover) for his local library. "Heavy antique stock," the prospectus brags, "will give the magazine its fine library appeal guaranteed to keep its timbre and color...