Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Milton P. Brown '40, Coop president and Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, expects the COC to work from the inside out. "Our first job is to make sure we are giving the best service we possibly can as a store run for the benefit and convenience of its members and the other people who, use it. After that we will try to see how well we are doing our job in the community." Brown says...
...about a dozen Secret Service agents still assigned to the ex-President. One uniformed agent sits in the lobby with an eleven-button telephone; no one gets past him without an appointment. Johnson either flies into Austin by Air Force helicopter, landing on the roof, or drives in his Lincoln Continental. Federal employees are finding parking spots in the basement garage increasingly hard to come by. The whole front row has been commandeered by L.B.J. and the Secret Service, and about half the remaining spaces disappeared in a trice to make room for a large Sheetrock storehouse-presumably for some...
...years, Mrs. Bruce (she married Career Diplomat David Bruce in 1926; they were divorced in 1945) quietly donated enormous sums to the institutions she loved, including $20 million (in conjunction with her brother) to Washington's National Gallery of Art last year and $3,000,000 to Lincoln Center in 1958. But, as a friend put it, "she had more money than anyone could give away sensibly." Last year FORTUNE estimated her personal worth at more than $500 million...
...that Americans have overmoralized public office. They tend to equate public greatness with private goodness, forgetting that a revered President like Abraham Lincoln suffered assorted psychosomatic ailments, that he was absentminded, and told jokes that made him seem callous. If private rectitude were tantamount to public usefulness, then Calvin Coolidge would be esteemed the greatest President...
Milton P. Brown '40, president of the Coop and Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing at the Harvard Business School, predicted the rebate cut last April. He said, "Nobody wants to cut [rebate rates]. But we can't pay what we don't earn...