Word: nortons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people interviewed for a TIME cover take it so ebulliently. Industrialist-Art Collector Norton Simon compared his sessions to a "threeday physical exam at a clinic. You know you'll be poked, probed and punctured, and you'd better tell all because they'll find out anyway." The late Author John Marquand told Reporter Ruth Mehrtens that the interviews were better than being psychoanalyzed. Oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau recalls with a shudder, and some slight exaggeration, that he was rarely alone for three months: "Your reporters followed me everywhere. Once I tried to hide in a motel...
False Economy. Los Angeles Regent Edward Carter argued against using the regents' fund "just to balance the state budget one year," pointed out that it had financed such pioneering projects as Physicist Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron studies. Financier Norton Simon, calling on his own business experience, warned against any budgeting that reduces the quality of the product. "I wouldn't tear down the very root of what's been built," he declared. "This is the falsest kind of economy...
English tailors have made a science of measurements. Consider Walter Norton of Norton & Sons, who tailored a shooting suit for Bing Crosby with "plus twos" and also suits for Jack Paar and ten U.S. ambassadors. First, Norton snaps Polaroid pictures of the client front and side. Then, he drapes him in a Rube Goldberg contraption made out of wire rods, cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention...
...Norton Simon, the California millionaire who built an empire out of tomato paste, not only collects companies (among the many: Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry and Wheeling Steel) but also shuffles them and their management like so many cards. Last week he was shuffling for all he was worth. First, he announced that he was relinquishing the post of board chairman of Wheeling Steel, which he has held since Hunt Foods acquired a major interest in the West Virginia steel firm in 1964. Next, in an unrelated move, he arranged the appointment of Colgate-Palmolive Executive Vice President David...
Avoiding Interlock. The main reason for Norton Simon's other move-his own disestablishment from Wheeling