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...long-nosed, long-legged youth looked like the top man in his trade. With his countryman Merv Lincoln tagging along behind him, Herb loped over the grassy turf track with the stride of an astonished ostrich. He stuck to the early pacemakers with ease. When Texas' Drew Dunlap and Maryland's Burr Grim pulled him through a 2:00.5 first half, Herb knew he was running a hot mile. In the third quarter, his pacemakers began to burn out, and Herb went into business for himself. He opened a steadily widening lead, finished 20 yds. in front...
Even the proudest firms are titans leaning on the tots. At Grosset & Dunlap, children's books comprise two-thirds of the firm's publishing operation; 35% of Random House's sales volume is estimated to be in juveniles; fully $13 million of Simon & Schuster's $18 million gross last year came from books for kids...
Fiction Factories. This is true even of the products of the "mass" publishers (Whitman, Simon & Schuster, Grosset & Dunlap), whose millions of books are pushed through supermarkets, chain stores, drugstores, Howard Johnson restaurants, newsstands, toy stores and mail-order houses. Their authors are either long dead (and their work, therefore, in the public domain) or journeyman writers, many of them organized in large talent pools. Ideas are assigned, stories written and rewritten by teams of writers and editors, often recalling the Hollywood assembly lines...
...special insurance problem was all in a day's work for Marsh & McLennan. "We insure anything," says President Herman Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith. Like Lloyds of London, M. & M. has grown big (2,720 employees, offices in 29 U.S. and foreign cities) by never turning down an acceptable risk, will as gladly work out insurance for a $20,000 cotton shipment as a $2,000,000 offshore oil-drilling rig, or a $20 million pipeline. While M. & M. does not carry the actual fire, casualty, loss, or accident insurance itself, it acts as an expert broker, helping companies place their...
Business Expense. In Denver, Laundress Velma Dunlap won a divorce after she told the judge that her husband gave her money only once during their marriage, when he forked over $4 so she could advertise for more washing and ironing to take...