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...Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...
...Women's Wear Daily, the brash and breezy tabloid trade paper, last week acquired a new standard-newspaper-size sibling called W, a fortnightly that Publisher John Fairchild says is aimed at "an audience of intellectually affluent women in the U.S. and abroad." Priced at 50?, or $7.50 a year, W contains lavish color illustrations and a collage of fashion and gossip dedicated to what the beautiful people of both sexes are saying, wearing and doing. The first issue, well seeded with ads, went to 70,000 charter subscribers, and Editor Michael Coady sees circulation rising...
...been salvaged. Several times, he comes close to saying something significant--about the player-agent alliance that is presently causing so much friction between labor and management, about the way a pro hockey team functions internally over the course of a season, about the contrast between aging veteran and brash rookie. But he prevents himself from covering any of these in depth by saddling himself with the hokey Love Story angle...
Roadwork is not an important musical statement, nor is it carefully crafted artistry. It is instead a loud, brash and bold experiment. Sometimes it falls, sometimes it works. We can do nothing but hope for more...
...young Trotsky, however, who cuts the heroic figure that may appeal most to contemporary audiences. This is the Trotsky to emerge from the pages of his own early work 1905 -brash, scornful, ambitious but as yet uncorrupted by the necessities of maintaining power. The book was first published in 1909 as Russia in the Revolution, then revised and widely translated under its present title...