Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERE LIES JEREMY TROY. In a comedy by Jack Sharkey, Troy is a lawyer (Will Hutchins) whose life is based on a series of misunderstandings. Murvyn Vye plays his boss, and Darren McGavin an artist friend. Skowhegan; Fitchburg, Mass.; Ogunquit; Dennis...
Then Zorba goes to town on business and squanders his boss's money on prostitutes and drink. Finally, he convinces Bates to give up the mine and go into the number business. He constructs in elaborate conveyor system at much expense to carry down food from a near-by mountain. Naturally, the system collapses. At the very end, Bates now completely broke, dances a silly dance on a deserted beach with is trusted friend, Zorba...
...minority in the Cabinet. The south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very symbol of centuries of Arab rule. Instead of listening to reason, the blacks renewed the attack...
...that a few years ago it wobbled. "Our old patriarchal form of management collapsed," says Mohn. "We were practically forced into decentralization." With techniques gleaned from U.S. magazines and books and his biennial brain-picking visits to the U.S., he split Bertelsmann into 44 subsidiaries, each with its own boss and its own specialized function, such as printing, warehousing and collecting bills. Delegating with skill, he told managers: "I don't care what you do-as long as everybody in the company provides the world's best solution to his particular problem." Whenever a subsidiary shows signs...
Mohn also scans some manuscripts, usually turns down any that might be controversial. He has no regrets over rejecting the bestselling manuscript of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Deputy, which criticized Pope Pius XII. The boss's only regret is that about one-third of West Germany's adults do not read books (according to a recent Gallup poll, 77% of the Americans it queried had not cracked a book within the past year). Mohn figures that Germany's small number of nonreaders will diminish if and when he can find more salesmen in the labor...