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Since the common psycho-sclerotic spends his days "mouthing negativisms" and cultivating "defeat tendencies," Stay Alive's pages are alive with Before-And-After-Positive-Thinking testimonials. There is the case of the too-busy industrialist who came on hard times. To pay for groceries the man and his wife ("almost strangers to each other") picked blueberries "on opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with...
...have gone into its real job: to attract out-of-state industry. Armed with voluminous research material and aided by state departments, the commission has zealously uncovered prospects, wooed them with hard facts and friendly talk and dinners at Winrock or the governor's mansion. Many a wavering industrialist has been won over by personal visits from Rockefeller, e.g., Akron's Mohawk Rubber, which built a $2,000,000 plant after a little personal persuasion...
Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...professorship honors the St. Louis industrialist who played an important part in the re-building of the Harvard Divinity School as a center of religious learning...
...branched into iron and gold mines, newspapers and film companies (Greta Garbo got her first job as an extra in a Kreuger-financed film). Up to this time, Kreuger was an aggressive industrialist, but not the dishonest manipulator he later became. Yet he was in the grip of a grandiose passion-to make and sell every match in the world. He had always thought of himself as a superman, and in 1922 he had a superidea. He would personally shore up the tottering, post-World War I governments of Europe with loans, in return for match monopolies...