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Under this goad of a stern Baptist conscience, Nelson Rockefeller listened attentively to Bible readings with his breakfast. In a ledger he entered, as had his father and grandfather, his 25? weekly allowance, extra income from raising rabbits or catching flies (at 10? a hundred), and the uses he made of the money. Mother Abby Aldrich, less stern of conscience, balanced obligation with games, art and music. When she heard that Columbia University's new progressive Lincoln School mixed students from townhouse and tenement and put a premium on curiosity, she enrolled Nelson and his younger brothers...
...collection or another, Dangerous Dan grossed its author half a million dollars; and another early Service ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee, earned such widespread prominence that its real-life namesake (whose name Service casually lifted from a bank ledger) spent all the remaining days of his life parrying the question: "Is it warm enough...
...just 27 when he bought the Staten Island Advance for $98,000 in 1922. Since then, short (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky Samuel Irving Newhouse, 63, the son of a Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Syracuse Herald-Journal and Post-Standard. The prosperous Newhouse chain is surpassed in heft and wealth only by Scripps-Howard (21 papers) and Hearst...
With his own sales down 33% (for Ford) and 65% (for Mercury), Ford President Henry Ford II showed stockholders a first-quarter ledger with earnings off 77% to $22.7 million. Chrysler Boss Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert had to face up to a $15.1 million loss-the biggest ever-with sales down 53%. Only General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice has anything to crow about. Chevy has bumped Ford out of the No. 1 spot; G.M.'s overall first-quarter sales were off only 11.6%, its earnings down 29.1% to $185 million; G.M. cars, though down in volume, have captured...
...news that the New York Times has never seen fit to print was a statement of its annual earnings and condition. Last week, in a detailed story on its financial page, the Times broke precedent and published its first annual report. With characteristic reserve, the Times announced that its ledger had been kept in good, black ink ever since 1896, when it was bought by the late Adolph Ochs for $75,000. Total profits...