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Ridge's trouble is that he has a menace on the board of directors in the person of Wheeler-Dealer Walter J. Mornssey, a man to whom a convertible is not a car but a debenture. Morrissey wants to fold Trumpet and its sister magazine. Gentlewoman, and save the firm's other, money-making divisions, thereby boosting the company stock and setting up a multimillion-dollar capital gain for himself. In the Cottier situation. Gentlewoman was Woman's Home Companion, and the Morrissey role was played by smooth Financier J. Patrick Lannan, who with other industrialists held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Trumpet | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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