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...seduced so many good writers and artists into working for corporations and their ad agencies, thus creating "a sort of debased intellectual class who, by way of their knowledge and skill, have become rather the writing hands of business, than outright businessmen"; and the great stress placed on the chap marks of education "with the B.A. a tollgate to a business career, the Ph.D. to an academic one." Essentially good humored and tolerant, Kronenberger charges other men with folly rather than outright evil, and recognizes that the very extremism that often makes the U.S. unbearable has helped to make...
...board I sat on rang me up," complains one top British industrialist, "and told me, 'We're thinking of putting up so-and-so.' I asked if he knew anything about the business. The answer was 'No, but he's an awfully nice chap and married to so-and-so, you know...
...revolution was fired a few months ago when a London merchant bank openly advertised in the Financial Times for a new managing director-a departure so radical that one banker felt obliged to explain: "Normally, one wouldn't advertise a real job, you see, because if a chap didn't know a job was going he wouldn't be the right sort of chap, would he?" The most startling changes have been wrought on boards where the Old Boy influence was strongest. Old-school-tie companies both, the Rank Organization and Viyella International have been dramatically improved...
...British and American officers interned in Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra 202 went about filthy and half-naked, and one chap kept a glass eye stuck in his navel so he could stare unblinkingly at the guards. Life was desperately droll, but then Colonel Joseph Ryan arrives and the fun departs. As senior-officer-in-captivity, Ryan sets about shaping the men up for the day of their great escape. "I do expect military haircuts," he begins, and the troops get restless. "Von Ryan," one agile wit calls from the ranks, "you're in the wrong army...
Poor crummy chap, Jubb can be looked on as a true scion of all British sexual repression. Just as handily, he can be seen as an underprivileged victim of the lingering class system...