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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...J. GLASBERG Kfar Barukh, Israel...
When Pat's father learned what had happened to his son, he flew into a rage. Next day County School Superintendent J. W. Threatte called Teacher Baskin in, ordered her to explain to Mr. Taylor exactly what had happened. At first Minnie Lee Baskin did not feel that the matter was particularly urgent, decided to postpone her visit until after the Christmas holidays. When school reopened, the superintendent called her in again. The whole school board, he said, was up in arms. She had better see Taylor fast...
...joined McCann-Erickson as an office boy. He shot up fast, became president in 1948 at 32. Since then, he has quadrupled the agency's billings (Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, Chesterfield, etc.) to $250 million last year, hopes eventually to push McCann ahead of the No. I agency, J. Walter Thompson...
...J. Paul Getty's world is Getty Oil Co., the core of one of the most complex corporate structures ever built. As Getty Oil's president and chief stockholder, he owns or controls some 40 companies, ranging from Tidewater Oil Co. to firms that make trailers, own hotels, sell life insurance. Wherever Getty happens to be, there is centered the world of Getty Oil and its satellites. In an age of teamwork, J. Paul Getty is the last of a vanishing breed: an autocratic tycoon who runs his own show, has nothing but contempt for the modern, hemmed...
...billionaire? His enemies carp that his prospects were so good from the very start that he could not miss, say: "If your dad left you all that money, you could do it, too." This does justice to neither Jean Paul Getty nor his ambitious, strong-willed father. When J. Paul was born in 1892, George F. Getty was a prosperous Minneapolis lawyer. On the day when he heard his son's first wail, he calmly turned on his heel, strode downstairs and said to the maid: "Set another place for lunch." By the time Paul...