Word: businessman
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Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
...free U.S. colleges and universities make excellent heirs and business partners, as many a businessman has learned. Dozens of colleges own commercial real estate, apartment buildings and factories, some own ranches and farms. New York University gets the profits of the C. F. Mueller Co. (macaroni), while the University of Michigan operates the airport at Willow Run. Last week, the University of Louisville found itself hooked up with a race track...
When Jim Bruce first went to Buenos Aires 21 months ago, about the only instruction he carried was to make friends with the Argentines. A convivial customers' man and a millionaire (National Dairy Products Corp., Baltimore Trust), Businessman Bruce did as he was told. He got on joke-swapping terms with Juan Perón, hobnobbed with the cardinal primate and governors. Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting...
...economic questions that plagued Argentina-falling production, lack of dollars, shrinking markets-were right up Bruce's alley. Persistently, he used his backslapping sessions with Perón to dish out a businessman's advice. Once he suggested that Argentina export more butter. "But we don't produce enough butter to export any," argued Perón. "If you will allow exporters a free hand in exporting butter, you would produce enough," answered Bruce...
...system, argue that a horse can prove his greatness only under high weight. At anything like even weights, Citation and Coaltown are admittedly in a class by themselves. Horsemen and fans alike would like to see a match race between the two, but Warren Wright is too sharp a businessman to waste that much horsepower on a single race...