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Excess of Sympathy. Born Emile Herzog, son of an Alsatian Jewish industrialist, Maurois fled the family textile works and served as a liaison officer to the British army during World War I before taking up his writing career. Despite his gifts of dialogue and invention, his fiction existed within the bounds of bourgeois convention. "I wrote about a rather limited world," he admitted. When he tried to do otherwise, he produced clichés. The interplanetary observers of The Life of Man saw human beings behaving like ants. In The Departure, the dead queue up to board airplanes. Typically, Maurois...
...Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began to write the poems that can be seen, in her own words...
Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...
...hero is a pipe-smoking industrialist by day, the head of the Danish underground by night, and a skin-deep thinker on the side ("The whole world is a bloody sickness"). Bad Nazis perform the usual tortures, while protesting "We are a civilized people." Good Germans lament, "What a day we live in!" Arnold even has the chutzpah to have a Jewish housewife prescribe the hot-chicken-soup cure for an ailing dog. Worse, he blithely puts 1967 American words in 1943 Danish mouths: after deciding "that wasn't the name of the game," a member of the underground...
Ford's thoughts coincided with those of California Industrialist Edgar F. Kaiser, who also sensed a rising demand among Brazilians for more and better cars. Kaiser, with a 38% interest in Willys, has been building autos in Brazil since 1953, but has gradually realized that despite a lucrative business-Willys built 62,809 cars in Brazil last year -he has neither the technology nor the capital to keep up with a changing market. As part of a $40 million deal, he agreed to sell out to Ford...