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...price: $20), which includes a frog, a perch, and a crayfish pickled in formaldehyde, and the Fleet Manufacturing Co.'s Chick-U-Bator, a two-egg plastic incubator. Other eye-catchers: Margarete Steiffs stuffed frogs, starfish and turtles for children's TV seats; Boombass Co.'s one-man band mounted on a bouncing stick (list price...
Some people think less of him. Says Arnold Shaw of the music-publishing firm of E. B. Marks: "Someone like Clark is a one-man trust." Adds Marty Mills of Mills Music, Inc.: "People know that Clark will lay it on [i.e., plug a song] if he's got any stake...
...when most men are put out to pasture, Hall still operates like a one-man gang, working seven days a week, making the decisions, supervising every aspect of his business. "I used to think." says the lean, balding Midwesterner, "that when I got old, I would not work such long hours, but here I am." He approves every idea, each sugary line on each card in his huge assortment. He keeps constant tab on the profit sharing, health insurance, hours and pay of his some 5.000 employees, even inspects the food served in the company cafeteria. When he rejects something...
...Clements, 63, bitter factional foe of Chandler for a quarter-century (TIME, May 25). Only a Republican victory in the election could have restored Democrat Chandler's slipping grip on state political power, perhaps let him pick delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention and thus renew his one-man 1956 campaign for the presidential nomination. So Chandler did his bombastic best to defeat his own party, blasted Combs only a few days before election day as "the biggest liar I've seen in 30 years in politics . . . a poor little dunce who will have to let Clements...
This week Still, who has not shown a single painting in seven years, is relenting in a big way, as Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery opens its doors on a one-man show of 72 oils covering 21 years. Still set stiff terms: all pictures were to be hung by himself, all competing modern canvases were to be banished from sight...