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...CAPITALIST MANIFESTO (265 pp.) -Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler -Random House...
...Syntopicon) Adler decided that the 400 Great Books were about to have company. That was when a 600-page manuscript on the theory of capitalism thudded onto his desk at his Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco. The author: a hornrimmed, bow-tied corporation lawyer named Louis O. Kelso. Except for Kelso's wife, Adler was the first person to see the book; U.S. readers will see it shortly under the sweepingly simple title Capitalism. So challenging did Adler find Kelso's ideas that he proposed the two men collaborate on a kind of popular preview. Says...
...styles are scarcely comparable. Marx-Engels wrote in fire; Kelso-Adler seem to be writing under water. Yet the book achieves a triumph of grey matter over grey manner. Four points stand...
...reading material for two weeks, with a strong hint that he get to work on it at once. As last week's group arrived at Aspen, they were greeted by Philosopher Mortimer Adler (TIME, March 17, 1952), who moderates executive seminars with Corporation Lawyer and Author Louis Kelso. Said Adler: "You are here to exercise-in the seminar building as well as in the health center...
...from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evidence: a photostatic copy of a King interoffice memo which Bell's lawyers got from a disgruntled trucker that proved King was working a switch on the old "collect call" routine. Said the memo from King's vice president John Kelso: "I know the method, I think, where we can save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill by 50%." The memo went on to outline a complicated "initial" code. Trucker John Doe, for example, would...