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...archetypal kid brother. He was 16 years younger. He adored "Stein," as he called him. And he took naturally to Stein's patronizing pontifications on how to do anything, from landing a fish to landing a woman, and was happy to serve as batman, drink mixer, errand boy and good listener whenever the Great Man felt the urge. His book about his brother is not really a biography. But as a chronological series of personal memories, plus cullings from Hemingway's letters, it adds some warm flesh tones to the growing picture of the supersensitive...
TIME'S effort to establish the Vice President as something other than an errand boy had a phony ring to it [Feb. 23.] If the President has expanded the role of the Vice President, it must be classified information. About the only new addition to Lyndon's position is heading the National Aeronautics and Space Council, and, no doubt, the Texan must find outer space rather lonely and cold...
...wispy (5 ft. 4 in., 129 Ibs.) Konosuke Matsushita has the self-effacing look of an elderly, underpaid schoolteacher. In fact, he is a daring manufacturing and merchandising genius who, starting out at nine as an errand boy, has built Japan's biggest appliance business from nothing. Matsushita's success has made him Japan's biggest yen billionaire; last year his personal income hit $916,000, and for five out of six years he has been Japan's ''King of Taxpayers." But Japan's prosperity does not delight Matsushita merely because it fills...
...Lower East Side, a land of pushcarts and bewildered immigrants finding their way in a new world. His father had a gift for languages, but none at all for keeping a job. His mother took in piecework sewing, and Gropper himself, once he had quit school, worked as an errand boy for a clothing store at $5 a week. In spite of the ten-hour working day, Gropper found time to draw, and hungered for further training...
...Requests for dealerships have come in by the score; 20 have been accepted. Says Stuart: "I'm convinced there is a real market for a second car for limited town or suburban driving. I don't recommend it for thruways or turnpikes; it's an errand...