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...Johnson the sort of President who would be likely to yield a jot or tittle of his authority. "The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion," he once declared. "And I intend to turn over this office with all of its powers intact to the next man who sits in this chair...
TRAINING As a hard-driving boss who built a small shoemaking firm into an apparel and retailing combine with annual sales of $872 million, Genesco Chairman W. Maxey Jarman can fairly claim to be a business expert. Yet Jarman is going back to school. He recently struggled to jot down answers to questions on a long series of statements, spoken in everything from pure Bronx to a Southern drawl, on a tape recording prepared by the Xerox Corp. "I thought I was a pretty good listener," Jarman said after sampling the 21-hour session. "Then I took that test...
...Renaissance man should be. Biographer Henderson presents a picture of Morris happily at work at his easel, humming a song that he had deciphered from a manuscript, turning aside to make a drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired at last, descending a staircase, perhaps of his own design, to bring up an armful of wine to entertain his friends at a boisterous dinner...
...lavish spender in private life, Peggy Lee hoards her musical resources, parceling them out with a parsimony that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions...
President Johnson may need a Jot more baling wire if he is finally to bring inflation under control. Among signs of continuing inflation last week were auto price increases (see following story) and the consumer price index, which rose in August another four-tenths of a percent to a record level of 113.8, up 3.5% in the past year, with most of the increase due to the higher cost of food. Meanwhile, Wall Street had a kind of relapse. Two weeks ago, after President Johnson announced the suspension of the 7% corporation tax credit for capital investment, the market rallied...