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...Postman's Ring. To Businessman Summerfield., the reports that landed on his Post Office desk were as plain (but by no means as satisfying) as the sales figures had been at his prosperous Chevrolet agency back in Flint, Mich. The Post Office books simply showed that the department was about to run out of money-with three months still to go in the fiscal year. Thus, while the House was still listening to Clarence Cannon's cries of bluff, Summerfield issued the orders that 1) eliminated, effective last week, all regular deliveries on Saturdays, 2) closed all Post...
...McLAY Flint, Mich...
...modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could have such tender concern for the dead...
This one I can't pass up. TIME, Nov. 12, says, "Estes Kefauver, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, factory gate." By comparison, our Multigraph running top speed at 6,300 impressions per hour goes Bang! Bang...
...revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen at their materialistic worst. Yet for all the angry talk of flint-hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American business scene. A businessman himself (onetime ad manager for Braniff Airlines), Author Burnett has tried to analyze and report how a big U.S. business works in modern...