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...Arthur Carlsberg had been a caddy, gardener, seed salesman and fruit trader. Many of them, like Merlyn Mickelson, never went to college; others, like Arthur Decio and Charles Bluhdorn, impatiently dropped out of college in order to study in the marketplace. At the beginning of their careers, they lived lean, often taking shoestring salaries in order to pump profits back into their enterprises. In his first plant, Mickelson doubled as a floor-sweeping janitor. Many of them suffered at least one jarring failure in business, but showed a capacity to bound back unfazed...
...done in the community will stand comparison with the work of the more nearly established"; but it's a sorry thing that the magazine has to depend so much on the "community." The current number boasts only three writers from Harvard or the 'Cliffe. The Advocate will continue to lean on post-B.A. literati as long as undergraduates don't bother to contribute...
...Once, two and two made three around here. Now it makes six." So says Gordon Grand Jr., the lean tax lawyer who runs giant Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1965 sales forecast: $875 million). Strange though such arithmetic may seem, it makes sense at Olin. Like many another manufacturing mammoth, the company overreached itself in a scramble to diversify a few years ago, found its profits dwindling as its debts increased. Olin is still pretty diversified-its 4,500 products include antifreeze, shotguns, rocket fuel, electric toothbrushes and paper for Bibles-but it has learned how to make its money stretch...
...four husbands and bought books with jackets to harmonize with her draperies. Sherman grew up in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York. After 21 public schools and the University of Illinois, he packed up a suitcase full of his songs, settled down in New York for seven lean years as a starving television gagwriter. Then one day he and a friend thought up the idea for I've Got a Secret, and he settled down for seven fat years as a Madison Avenue television producer. He insists that it was a nightmare. Transferred to the Coast, he lost...
Cassius would lean back in his folding chair, loosen his terry cloth robe, and case a vanilla smile across his chocolate face. "Little Phil, when I'm growed up, you'll know what I done...