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...throne for himself, the legendary Greek hero Jason sought and found the fabled Golden Fleece, outward symbol of all that was most rich and rare. Today's Jason is another golden Greek, the modern-day Argonaut Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 48 (TIME, Aug. 6, 1956), whose tanker fleets gird the globe, bring in a train of wealth and credit that affords Niarchos comforts and pleasures beyond even Jason's imaginings. Niarchos has a Long Island estate, a Manhattan triplex, a penthouse atop London's Claridge's, a princely hótel particulier in Paris...
...London's ancient Westminster Hall last week U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell set down a modern-day challenge to lawyers of two continents in a speech to the American Bar Association. Excerpts...
...Modern-day rustlers broke into a suburban San Francisco cemetery, made off with the tombstone of the West's TV-famed scourge of badmen. Dodge City's Town Marshal Wyatt Earp...
...about as a potential governor of Louisiana or U.S. Senator. His success demonstrates a political maxim that last-hurrahing wardheelers across the U.S. are rapidly learning: a hard-nosed, hard-pushed program of municipal reconstruction can do more than patronage, back-scratching or the food basket to put a modern-day mayor on the road to political success...
...hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American business scene. A businessman himself (onetime ad manager for Braniff Airlines), Author Burnett has tried to analyze and report how a big U.S. business works in modern-day society...