Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides her long-suffering husband (Gene Lyons), Dulcy's circle includes her bemused brother-in-law (Perry Fiske); a humorless, successful businessman (Lawrence Fletcher) with a flighty, amateur-writing wife (Gloria Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who insists on being called a "scenarist" rather than a "scenario writer"; a piano-playing gentleman with hallucinosis (Justice Watson); a celebrated attorney (Stanford McAuley); and an ex-larcenous butler (Howard Mann...
...propaganda efforts go, Nasser's have been hugely successful. His teachers had infiltrated Jordan and Lebanon before governments in those countries got wise and started throwing them out. In Kuwait, said a British businessman, "there isn't a pro-Western child of school age left...
...expert on investment abroad, exhort U.S. businessmen to take on a new challenge: the European Common Market. The common market, a vast trading zone of six European countries, will remove trade barriers among participating nations, allow free movement of goods, labor and capital. What worries many a U.S. businessman is that it will also be protected by tariffs that discriminate against outsiders, make it harder for U.S. firms to compete in Europe, the biggest market for U.S. exports. The way to compete is to establish plants in the common market area. Says Vice President William H. Mathers of Yale & Towne...
...many a U.S. businessman and economist, one of the touchiest questions of 1958 is: Has the recession thrown a serious chill into the American consumer's mood of sunny, open-pocketed optimism? For a while last winter and early spring, it appeared that the recession indeed had, as autos, appliances and many other consumer hard goods turned down. Last week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer...
Brown-eyed, lissome Elaine Dundy, "thirtyish," is the daughter of a retired Manhattan businessman, and spent some time as an American girl in Paris. But Sally Jay, she says, "isn't me. She started out that way, but she wasn't moving around. When I asked myself, 'What wouldn't I have done?' and made her do that, she finally got on her feet." Her intention as a writer: "To -fling myself into youth, to say this is how it was, these are my buddies." Currently, Author Dundy's buddies are those of Kenneth...