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When he turned on the TV set to catch the latest Cuba bulletins before breakfast one morning last week, John Ernst Steinbeck had no inkling that he had won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature while he slept. At a press conference a few hours later, ruddy-faced, jug-eared and bearded, John Steinbeck muttered that he "got splintered this morning" and still felt "wrapped and shellacked." Later, with tongue in cheek, he explained that wrapping and shellacking is the standard formula for repairing a cracked goldfish bowl...
...have to play faster here, or I don't think you'll make it," said Ernst...
...Ernst was the maitre d' at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt Grill, and he was talking to 27-year-old Guy Lombardo the night the Royal Canadians opened there. A Chicago critic had called Lombardo's airs "the sweetest music this side of heaven," but still it made Ernst nervous. Lombardo was leaving out the boop-poop-a and just giving the dew. But Lombardo ignored him and kept fogging it into the room-for 33 years-to become one of the most popular and durable performers in U.S. show business. He has sold more than 100 million...
...Europe's managers the Common Market has rolled back horizons. A Ruhr industrialist, who a few years ago entertained foreigners only on formal occasions, now thinks nothing of inviting a clutch of executives from other Common Market nations to drop by for cocktails. West German Electrical Magnate Ernst von Siemens flatly declares that any executive who hopes to rise in his company must first cut the mustard in a Siemens branch abroad. Belgium's Nokin is particularly proud of presiding over the first truly "European" steel company: the big (1.1 million ton capacity) Sidmar mill that the Societe...
Family Affair. Commanding this industrial empire is Chairman Ernst von Siemens, a shy bachelor who raises exotic flowers as a hobby and says, "Our essential goal is to do sound business rather than big business." Von Siemens has surrounded himself with a staff of multilingual executives, many of whom have studied abroad or served in Siemens foreign outposts. Since working control of the company is held by the Von Siemens family, the heir apparent is a 51-year-old cousin. Peter von Siemens, now a deputy member of the management board of Siemens' sister firm. Siemens-Schuckert, which makes...