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Phil Graham's impact was greater on the financial side. When he took over from Eugene Meyer in 1946, the Post was in grievous financial shape, while its gaudy opposition, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, was high on the hog. In 1949, after Mrs. Patterson's death, Meyer and his astute son-in-law tried in vain to buy the Times-Herald, but lost out to Colonel Bertie McCormick. In 1954, after a disastrous attempt to run it like a D.C. edition of his Chicago Tribune, McCormick sold his paper to Meyer...
...products retail at a 1% to 200% premium, and sales are swelling to $2,000,000 this year. The company's next project will be small, 8-oz. portions for the bachelor, or for the wife who seeks girth control while her husband eats high on the hog...
...music at the University of Utah. He directs 375 singers, divided into four-part men's and four-part women's choruses. All members are adult volunteers, including many housewives, but also four doctors, three lawyers, two bankers and one dentist-plus a glass blower and a hog caller...
...borrow it, cannot make a U.S.-style living out of farming. What they put into farming is primarily their own labor, and farm labor is low-paid, averaging 84? an hour, less than one-third of factory wages. "When I'm on my tractor," says an Ohio corn-hog farmer with a $300,000 farm, "I'm worth no more than my hired hand...
Businessmen who live high on the hog irritate a Brazilian intellectual named Israel Klabin. "In an underdeveloped country," says Klabin, "there can be no elite." Yet Klabin himself, a businessman as well as a Sorbonne graduate, belongs to-and prizes membership in -an elite of sorts. At 36, he is one of Brazil's brightest young businessmen and the primus inter pares of an unusual family whose members share equally the profits and responsibilities of running a $130 million business complex. "We are," says Israel Klabin, "something like the Rothschilds...