Word: helpful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ourselves go with our art collections and our furniture and our closets crammed with Huntsman suits, Sulka shirts and Lock hats. It is also perfectly O.K. to amuse yourself with elec- tronic equipment. Nothing ordinary, of course. One of my friends says he uses a small computer to help him with his racing forms as well as with the stock market, and quite a few have closed-circuit television to communicate with the nursery and the servants' wing...
...Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes to the help about buying ham at less than $5 a pound: As she says: "Money does not grow on trees." And then there are decisions-decisions like what movies to choose for the Adirondacks this summer and whom to invite for the fishing and whom for the shooting...
Whatever you do with your money, don't let the pains of having it snuff out the pleasures of wanting. The only point of having money is the freedom it gives you to sharpen your desires to learn more, help more, play more, enjoy more, and make life even more extraordinary than it is anyway. Certainly money can buy happiness; the secret is how to use it. I trust you will use yours well. And if you find some good new way teach us. God knows we need...
...much of Wards' pile of idle cash in big new suburban stores, revamped sagging catalog sales, upgraded merchandise lines, established long-term contracts with suppliers. Following Sears by entering finance, Brooker picked up the Pioneer Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago in 1966, later formed an insurance subsidiary. To help introduce Sears methods, he even hired scores of his competitor's executives, including Edward S. Donnell, Wards' president since...
Counting on Controls. Wards' long-awaited turn-around has barely begun. Last week Brooker made it clear that he is counting on Container for help. "The corporation has a fine record of training people in controls," he said. "We'll benefit from this." Even more important, by pooling their resources both companies will greatly reduce their vulnerability to takeover attempts by other suitors...