Word: hawley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman continued to be more hero than villain (although a little confused) in such novels as Cameron Hawley's Cash McCall and Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. It was perhaps significant of the relative absence of satire that so gentle a writer as J. P. Marquand emerged with the year's best American satirical novel. Sincerely, Willis Wayde, the derisive and sympathetic portrait of an eager-beaver businessman who so hotly wooed success that he unwittingly lost his decency during the courtship...
Cash McCall, by Cameron Hawley. All about a devastatingly attractive financier who would not love his cash so much, loved he not honor more (TIME...
...Cameron Hawley (Executive Suite) has fashioned the better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...
CASH McCALL (444 pp.)-Cameron Hawley-Houghfon Mifflin...
Cork, Author Hawley has a knowing way with business lingo. While Cash and Lory's vapid love scenes tax patience as well as belief, the vitality of Cash McCall rests in its forceful portrait of a venture capitalist who is as remote from a backslapping booster as Reinhold Niebuhr is from Norman Vincent Peale...