Word: commercialistic
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Last week the old culturist and the old commercialist got together. Norton Simon Inc. announced that it had agreed to acquire Susskind's Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks...
...Hollywood sale. But Wallace insists that sincerity was the mark of his bedside manner. He says that he recoils when people stare at him as if they saw on his face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre, and worse, far worse, the bloated, unnatural look of the crass commercialist." In his latest example of sincere sex, for which he has already received $320,000 from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject is the men and women who win the Nobel Prize, but Wallace's intellectual giants have feet of such...
Professor Cunningham told an informal gathering of all the Busy School faculty and students Saturday night in Baker Hall that he and his so-called "crass commercialist" had thought enough of their brain-child in the "good old days" to submit to being crowded into cellars and housed in cabby holes for the first few years of its unprogressive development...
President Roosevelt expects to shrink the Department of Commerce, so greatly expanded by Herbert Hoover. Secretary Roper, no eminent commercialist, is prepared for major amputations...
...been the victim of Dishonesty even more piddling?has bought a ticket which he fancied good because it was marked Row F, then discovered there were numerous unlettered rows in front of row A. So prevalent is this species of informatory weaseling that many philosophic souls wonder whether any commercialist can be utterly frank about the nature of the things he wishes to sell. Recently there has been plenty of food for such speculations...