Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Daniel Murphy, whose profession is preventing trouble-and troubleshooting. In his almost 40 years of diplomatic service, Murphy has been everywhere, done everything, seen everyone. He has developed a charming exterior and a steely interior; he speaks -wherever he is-with the authority of his Government. For what Career Diplomat Murphy has meant and will mean to world politics, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Five-Star Diplomat...
...those who play to finish in the money. The man who plays to finish in the money will seldom win a tournament, but the man who plays to win will probably finish in the money." Playing to win, Venturi has missed the money only three times in his career as a professional...
Last week, at 61, Sonnabend prepared to take on the biggest matchmaking job of his career. At ailing Studebaker-Packard's request, he was ready to move into the company, find profitable nonautomotive companies to merge with it to take advantage of Studebaker's $135 million in tax losses. For Studebaker a merger is a matter of desperate urgency. Down to less than 1% of the auto market this year (from 2.4% in 1954), the company hopes to make a comeback this fall with a new small car, priced under $2,000. But to keep going, Studebaker must...
...Untouchables. In the '20s, Orwell - still known as Eric Blair* - was serving in Britain's Burma police and slowly becoming disillusioned with his Kiplingesque career. He could not bring himself to go on governing the "lesser breeds without the Law,'' but when he took his bad conscience home, he was soon to find, in the unemployed of the Depression, the least of breeds within the law. The industrial North impressed him as the dark side of a lunar slagheap landscape on which Empire's sun had set. After Orwell turned to socialism - an Old-Etonian...
...hophead dream of an ending, Nick goes away for a cure, comes back, presumably to marry Holloway's daughter and settle down to a career as an artist. As the book jacket puts it solemnly: "Nobility and love may flower wherever the seeds are sown." What the book has to offer is the authenticity of setting and speech that recalls Nelson Algren's excursion into the same territory. Unfortunately, Author Motley has not written another Man With the Golden Arm-but only a sort of Man With the Wire-Recorder...