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Just a few years back, Don Over was a craps dealer in Las Vegas, Merlyn Mickelson was a disk jockey in Wadena, Minn., and Al Maisin was a long shoreman in San Francisco. Today all three have one thing in common: they are millionaires. Becoming a millionaire is still an eminently realizable goal for many Americans, and many of them -like Over, Mickelson and Maisin - start the journey with little or no capital and reach the magic $1,000,000 mark well before they are 45. In the past decade, about 5,000 new millionaires have been added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: How to Become a Millionaire (It Still Happens All the Time) | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...Over, 37, saw a need for a trade journal that would tell big builders what major construction jobs were up for bidding: he took over a failing Honolulu magazine and printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth $46 million. Al Maisin sensed the hidden values in old neighborhoods, started remodeling dilapidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: How to Become a Millionaire (It Still Happens All the Time) | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...dialogue, modeled loosely on the German Protestant Kirchenwoche, or church week, was organized by Lutheran Pastor Arnold Mickelson "to get people to talk about their problems and their faith, to meet the community outside the church and discuss issues the public wants to talk about." A special interfaith committee scheduled more than 200 talk-stirring events, most of them under secular auspices, while clergymen stayed discreetly in the background. The dialogue was supported by nearly all local churches and service clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: Meeting the Community | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

Described by a New York critic as a surrealistic mishmash of "Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Season | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...replace Mickelson as president of the news division, CBS President Stanton named Attorney Salant. John Day's successor is Blair Clark,- 43, a onetime St. Louis and Boston newsman, former publisher of a New Hampshire weekly, and CBS radio correspondent since 1953. whose new title is general manager and vice president of the news division, and who graduated from Harvard in Jack Kennedy's class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Convulsions at CBS | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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