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Says Procter & Gamble's Board Chairman Richard R. ("Red") Deupree: "Management today doesn't require specific skills. A successful manager has to have overall skill of management. It's something in you that wants to come out. Mac makes quick decisions. He makes 'em fast. No one can be right all of the time, but Mac is right a majority of the time. An executive has to be right just about all of the time. He is making maybe 100 decisions a day, but if he knows his business he won't have to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Organization Man | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Congratulations on the excellent article about Richard Nixon - the No. 1 man in our Government. As for the Demos in '60 -let's fix 'em with Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...opinion of Alabama's Racist State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., if you can't lick 'em, the best thing to do is scatter 'em. Panicky because Negro vote strength was rising in his county seat of Tuskegee (pop. 6,700), Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: How to Deny a Vote | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Bombers B-52 (Warner) is a $1,400,000 want ad for Air Force technicians-the ground crews needed to keep 'em flying in the Strategic Air Command. SAC being what it is, a powerful discouragement to missile warfare, audiences might be prepared by recent headlines to take the picture seriously. It therefore comes as a shock when the customer finds himself sniggering through scene after scene, not only at Karl Malden, who gives a funny and often touching performance as a master sergeant, but also at some of the most extravagant recruiting promises that have been made since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...needed extra yardage, Fullback Ray ("Tex") Wellborn was always ready to oblige. A tireless transfer student from Rice Institute, Wellborn ran for two touchdowns, caught a Forrestal pass for a third. Final score: 20-6. "I just happened to be following those big horses," said he. "Tom called 'em, I ran 'em, they blocked 'em." Which was a modest way of saying that Tex Wellborn had made everybody in a Navy uniform-including Captain Cutter-look good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Middies' Magic | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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