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...VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY (243 pp.) -Flannery O'Connor-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Died. John J. O'Connor, 74, Tammany-sponsored Democratic Congressman from New York City (1923-38), chairman of the House Rules Committee (1932-38), who paid for his fight in the House against President Roosevelt's court-packing plan by being the only victim of F.D.R.'s "purge": he lost his seat in the 1938 election while the other two Representatives and nine Senators marked for defeat were reelected; in Washington...
...slump in consumer buying. Overloaded with sets, Magnavox saw its stock plummet, its losses rise. To raise more working capital, it sold 100,000 shares of preferred stock for $1,300,000, stepped up sales - and has not reported a loss since. When President Richard A. O'Connor moved up to chairman in 1950, Frank Freimann took over as president and chief executive officer...
Three Classes. Drug firms, said Connor, fall into three classes: 1) "creators"; 2) "molecule manipulators" who change basic drugs around but seldom score "home runs"; and 3) "coattail riders." who do no research, wait for a market to develop, then jump...
Illustrating the job of the creators, Connor said that his company spent 15 years trying to develop a cure for the rare (800 new cases a year) Addison's disease. In the search it found out, in 1949, how to mass-produce cortisone, today used by millions, and with its derivatives the most broadly prescribed chemical compound for disorders from arthritis to asthma and hay fever. Instead of profiteering, Connor said, Merck cut the price from $200 to $20 a gram before it had a competitor, then licensed so many other manufacturers that last year...