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SCHNOZZOLA, THE STORY OF JIMMY DURANTE (256 pp.)-Gene Fowler-Viking...
...relation of the public Jimmy to the private Jimmy is one of the main preoccupations of Gene Fowler's story. Schnozzola is not as spectacular a performance as Fowler's life on John Barrymore (Good Night, Sweet Prince). But it pours a foaming pitcherful of legend and anecdote, and Durante's numberless followers should be left reasonably happy...
Spontaneous Shrewdness. Jimmy's personal life, as painted by Biographer Fowler, strongly resembles a Grade B movie plot about show business. He was constantly troubled by a conflict of purpose between the two people closest to him: his wife Jeanne and his closest friend, Clayton. Jeanne Durante wanted Jimmy to spend more time at home with her; Clayton kept pushing him upward in the entertainment world. Jimmy, trying to please both, never did solve that problem, though in effect Clayton won. After Jeanne's death in 1943, Jimmy was often irked by a guilty feeling that...
...walnut-paneled room high in a Chicago office building one morning last week, Fowler McCormick, 52, International Harvester Co.'s chairman and big stockholder, met his board of directors for a showdown. The directors wanted to make President John Lawrence McCaffrey top dog in the company, turn the chairmanship into an advisory post. McCormick opposed the change, but the directors approved it anyway. Promptly McCormick resigned as chairman (but not as a director). For the first time since 1831, when Fowler McCormick's grandfather Cyrus introduced the reaper, the largest U.S. maker of agricultural equipment had no McCormick...
...Fowler McCormick, after breezing through Groton and Princeton, had joined the company as a $25-a-week factory worker in 1925, worked up through the engineering, accounting and sales departments to a vice presidency in 1934. He was president from 1941 to 1946 when Harvester smoothly shifted to wartime production of armored vehicles, shells and airplane cowlings along with peacetime farm equipment. When he was made chairman five years ago, directors changed the bylaws to let him keep the chief executive powers. McCormick decentralized the company's management, sparkplugged its $150 million postwar expansion, helped boost profits from...