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Died. Charles P. McCormick, 74, spice king whose McCormick & Co. dominates the U.S. market; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. Taking over his uncle's firm in 1932, McCormick expanded the business until now it is a $109 million operation; a major innovation was his "multiple management" system, under which various parts of the firm (sales, production, etc.) each elect a board to work with the top bosses...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick: "Stubborn, slow-thinking and bellicose, with a definite anti-British bias, which rumor attributes to the fact that he is still resentful of the canings he received whilst a schoolboy at Eton...
...political aggression than as a result of American efforts to continue a long process of economic expansion in the form of an "informal empire" (based on a form of free trade known as the "Open Door policy"). Other scholars, notably Gar Alperovitz, Barton J. Bernstein, Walter LeFeber, Thomas McCormick, and Gabriel Kolko have illustrated the workings of open-door expansion in specific cases. Fortunately, the dynamics of Soviet polities have been sufficiently explored by Deutscher, Moore, Marcuse, Shulman, and Ulam to show that NATO was based on an inflated myth and that Stalin actually sold out revolutionary movements outside...
...Shaw and Colburn are feeling and running better, but injuries are still bothering Bob Seals and Dave Pottetti." McCurdy said yesterday. Seals has been suffering recently from left hip pains, which developed after a knee injury cleared up. Erik Roth and Charlie McCormick are also at less than top speed because of ailments. All are expected to run, however...
What Moynahan pretends to be writing this time is still another crisis-of-identity novel. His purported antihero, Myles McCormick, floats adrift and lost in the rare-books stacks of the Boston Free Library. (Moynahan once worked at the Boston Public Library...