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Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from...
...Jackie Gleason, had only to pursue his subject a block away-to that upholstered saloon for the rented-Cadillac set called 21. Despite the convenience. McPhee's assignment deserves some kind of endurance prize, for he saw his subject in a gamut of moods: testy, comradely, hostile, candid, suspicious, trusting. Cover Artist Russell Hoban too, spent hours with his man, and sought to catch-in one portrait-some of the restless complexity of Gleason's character...
...Dark, out of remembered horror of his boyhood poverty disposed of his immense earnings in a manner so lavish that it was said to illustrate "what God would do if he had money," and finally cemented his claim to a place in theatrical legend with Act One, the disarmingly candid autobiography of a man who described his life as a mixture of "New York, Hollywood, insomnia, nervous indigestion and a childlike passion for the theater...
...middle-aged salesman. "I actually feel I can carry on a deeper conversation with my two-year-old daughter than I can with you." Hal may have felt like lashing out at his young critic, but instead he accepted the slur as if he had merely been done a candid favor. He had to, because both men were taking part in a Sensitivity Training Workshop, one of the fastest-spreading of U.S. management's many devices for putting a keen edge on executives...
Charlie Mingus has developed the most intensely personal, large-souled, and complete body of music in modern jazz. Before you speak out against such a categorical statement, pick up Mingus Presents Mingus (Candid 8005) and give another listen to Mingus Ah Um (Columbia...