Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since J. Russell Maguire, oil speculator, munitions maker and onetime broker, took over the fading American Mercury (circ. 66,017) in 1952 he has had staff trouble. Within six months Editor William Bradford Huie walked out rather than turn over editorial control to Owner Maguire. Last week most of the Mercury's top editors left in a body. Out went Editor John A. Clements, who is also promotion boss of the Hearst, magazines, followed by Editorial Writer J. B. Matthews, Military Pundit George Fielding Eliot, Author (Seeds of Treason) Ralph de Toledano and three others. Columnists Howard Rushmore...
...launched into a plea for a new American Theater. Echoing the arguments of William Saroyan and others, Miller said that Broadway suffers from too much commercialism. The huge cost of producing a show, he pointed out, places an author under stifling pressure. The writer's reputation as a money maker, and therefore his future, hinges on every play that comes before the public, causing him to be cautious and afraid to experiment. In contrast to this, Miller described the feeling of freedom and sheer joy that he had experienced in the writing of his new pair of plays, A View...
...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...
...Prototype. In 1945 Scanlon for the first time took the bits and pieces of what he had tried out in dozens of companies and put them together at the Adamson Co. of East Palestine, Ohio, a small maker of welded steel tanks. Complained Owner Cecil Adamson: "I give the union everything it asks for. But still the shop isn't working well. Let's get together and work out something so that you'll get something and I'll get something." Joe went into the plant, checked the books, and determined a "normal" labor cost...
...MANAGEMENT TEAM will be running Minneapolis-Moline Co., No. 7 farm-equipment maker, which was in the red last year. When White Motor Co. Executive Vice President Edward Reddig, spokesman for insurgent stockholders, showed that the raiders held more than 50% of proxies, the old management caved in, gave the rebels seven of ten director seats...