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Like an oriental potentate who has beheaded all of his viziers, iron-fisted Sewell Lee Avery sat last week in lonely splendor in his paneled throne room at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. For one day along the hushed executive corridors he could knock on any door and...
Any number of things might have changed the course of the corrida at Cuenca on Saint Barbara's Day. For example, if Eladio Gomez, tight-fisted impresario of the little Mexican bull ring, had not taken a second tequila one morning he might never have signed up Luis Bello...
Retail Trade. Montgomery Ward & Co.'s iron-fisted Chairman Sewell Avery had bad news for stockholders: March sales were off 16.7% from 1948. Ward's biggest stockholder, Massachusetts Investors Trust (which owns 1.5% of the stock), had bad news for Avery: it would oppose his re-election as...
The Captain. Though Trippe is surrounded by crack engineers, and financial and diplomatic experts, he runs Pan Am as a one-man show-and no one ever forgets it. His tight-fisted rule has been shaken more than once, but never broken.
In Durban last week, white South Africans were privileged to view one of the ugliest representations of man man ever wrought-Sculptor Jacob Epstein's primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big...