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Arriving in Japan, Auer called on two recent cover subjects, Ambassador Edwin Reischauer and Industrialist Konosuke Matsushita. Now experiencing what other cover subject have gone through, Matsushita joked that "for the next month I'll set aside five minutes a day to sign TIME covers." Auer visited Matsushita's new TV factory in Osaka, gave him the original coyer painting. Matsushita, bowing appreciatively, wondered whether the portrait made him look younger or older than he really is. Auer decided the moment called for Occidental inscrutability...
Your cover portrait of industrialist Matsushita [Feb. 23] prompts me to ask: Has he ever been known to smile-for instance, when he is counting his yummy yummy...
Before he announced last month that he would run as a Republican candidate in Michigan's 1962 gubernatorial race. George Romney fasted and prayed for 24 hours for divine guidance. His act of faith called attention to the fact that Romney, a remarkably successful and personable industrialist and community leader, is also a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...After failing six years ago in an all-out proxy fight to take over the Seiberling Rubber Co. Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, 59, kept at it, and proclaimed last week that he now owns 51% of the sagging Akron tiremaker's stock. His enterprises already include 25 companies ranging from radio and TV stations to a factory that produces sugar cane harvesting equipment. Lamb, the scrappy son of a commercial fisherman, worked his way through Dartmouth (24) to become a highly successful lawyer whose practice included both corporations and labor unions. At Seiberling, Lamb plans to keep on recently...
...Matsushita had 600 employees, was producing appliances from electric foot warmers to radio receivers. But it was not until one day in 1932 that he realized what his mission as an industrialist was. "It was a very hot summer day," he recalls. "I watched a vagrant drinking tap water outside somebody's house and noticed that no one complained about it. Even though the water was processed and distributed, it was so cheap that it didn't matter. I began to think about abundance, and I decided that the mission of the industrialist is to fill the world...