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Founder Blazer kept his company flexible, bragged that an Ashland refinery could be converted from one kind of refining to another "by supper-time." He also kept his work force lean, refused to hire his own nephew after Rex Blazer graduated from the University of Illinois ('28). "If you are as good as you think you are," said Uncle Paul, "you won't get any credit for it because you are my nephew. If you aren't that good, I'll have to fire you, and the family already has enough trouble." Paul Blazer loaned...
...Yale's Brian Dowling remains a whole man, it could be a lean Thanks-giving weekend for Harvard football fans...
...chairmanship last fall, and current Chairman H. Stephen Chase, 64. When the two retire-Cook at year's end, Chase next May-Wells Fargo's reins will go to Arbuckle, 55, and Richard P. Cooley, who was appointed president and chief executive officer last November at the lean...
...indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with a brilliant cast of minor players who serve as a Greek chorus in tragicomic peasant roles...
They're a pleasure to watch--the short stocky Gomez from Gambia and the tall, lean Bogovich from Yugoslavia. Together they can probably do all that can be done with or to a soccer ball...