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...welcome tailwind at their backs. By the time they reached the first checkpoint in Framingham, four men chugged together in the van: Kelley, Costes and the two Finns. By Auburndale, 10 miles from the finish, the race was already narrowed down to easy-striding Kelley the younger and the chop-gaited Viskari, with Kelley slightly ahead...
Once, consultants were little more than efficiency experts with a fancier title. Today the management consultant tries to be a hired superman: a co-strategist, talent scout, policy adviser, hatchet man (to chop down executive deadwood), naysayer and new-business finder. In the postwar boom the consultant business (2,000 firms grossing more than $400 million annually) has grown faster than ever, as industrialists, facing the largest opportunities (and pitfalls) in history, have looked for experienced guides for mergers and for diversification...
...Chop Suey in the Air. Like the millionaire Scot steelmaker whose surname she borrowed, Hattie started life in rags. Born in a Vienna ghetto, she came to the U.S. when she was six, and with her six brothers and sisters, grew up in the jungle of Manhattan's Lower East Side. When she was 13 her father died, and Hattie went to work as a messenger in Macy's basement. Even then, rotating a wardrobe of one skirt and three blouses, she had style and taste. Rose Roth, a neighborhood seamstress, noticed it, and persuaded Hattie to model...
...Rose's dresses), moved to an uptown shop above a delicatessen and a Chinese restaurant. Their only advertising was Hattie herself, but it was enough. Soon Soprano Alma Gluck, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. and other fashionable ladies were standing patiently for fittings in the mingled aroma of chop suey and lox. In 1919, after a quarrel, Hattie bought out her partner, and later moved to the present, world-famed Carnegie salon on Manhattan's East 49th Street. The same year, she made her first trip to Paris (through the years she rolled up a total of nearly...
Three events later, Dyer was back in the water to chop almost a full second off the Crimson record he established in the 100 just before mid-years. His new mark of 50.7 lowers the 51.6 time he established...