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Quick Change. But Odium never believes in riding a good horse until it tires. Last week, when Tulsa's close-trading Clarence H. Wright, president of Sunray Oil Corp., offered him approximately $44.8 million for his Barnsdall stock, Odium took it-and with it a cool $12 million clear profit for Atlas. It was one of the quickest major in-&-out deals in Odium's history. By contrast, he spent 17 years tinkering with the management of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller fashion store before he sold for more than $10 million a block of stock which...
...Soapbox. In one year, he addressed some 115 open-air meetings for the Independent Labor Party. "Sometimes I carried the soapbox," Attlee recalls, "sometimes' I stood on it-and sometimes I got knocked...
...Boston mother expressed concern over her infant son's propensity for eating TIME'S covers and four-color ads. She wanted to know whether the red and other colored inks would harm him. Our production department advised her that red inks contain phlox-ine, which has lead in it-and lead will not do anybody's son any good...
...same way, many a company which had been trying to discover the bottom on its "back-to-normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft...
Cummings explains, "I have no sentimental fear of sentimentality. There's a great pressure on soft people today to try to be hard, and I think that's very shoddy, very ugly. Now my painting complements my writing-if I go without one or the other I miss it-and since my writing is hard then the natural thing would be that my paintings are soft...