Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave McDonald lives his businessman's role right to the tips of his grimeless fingers. He surrounds himself with a hardworking staff of economists, statisticians, and public-relations men. He has been glamorized in an inspired and gushing biography. A onetime amateur actor, he sometimes rolls off pronouncements with more than a touch of ham. He regularly buys part of his vast wardrobe from Manhattan's Ivy-Leaguish Brooks Brothers...
Then the inevitable happened. Said Eyewitness Kenneth Treherne, a British businessman: "There was shooting, and for a second everyone froze in his tracks. Then everyone tried to run in the same direction−away from the firing. I'm afraid many of them got trampled. I heard screams of women and men . . . " Other observers say the workers rallied, locked arms and began advancing on the security guards. The guards fired wildly...
...anyone else-the special regard given his European counterpart." I submit that American society does give other types much the same respectful interest which Europe saves for its intellectuals. I refer, of course, to the movie star, the baseball or football hero, the jazz-band conductor, the very successful businessman or industrialist...
...minute. "I weighed myself on a penny machine and found I weighed 205," recalls Leverone. "Another machine said 98. A chocolate machine gave me nothing, not even my penny back. Out of a peanut machine I got six moldy objects I wouldn't feed to a goat." Businessman Leverone got sore enough to go to work to teach the vending-machine business a lesson in honesty-and see if it would not also prove profitable. With $60,000 he founded Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Last week Automatic Canteen, unchallenged leader of a booming $1.7 billion industry, counted...
Funniest episode: the two Pal Joeys get hold of a magazine called The Booster from a trusting U.S. businessman. Under Perles and Miller, the sheet's literary editors included William Saroyan, and it boasted a Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis. The new Booster's second and last issue contained a story of a man who completely vanished inside a beautiful girl in an igloo...