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More and more authors are aware that the businessman is not a duck-billed oddity from another world, but a human being inhabiting the same society as everyone else. The great problem is getting him on paper-and in modern dress, recognizing that business has changed from the freebooting days of the tycoon. What fiction now needs, suggests Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Robert A. Kavesh in a survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear...
...Herald & Express erupted once again. The whole idea, the paper grumbled, seemed to be some sort of plot. Had not the foundation's former President Paul Hoffman favored UNESCO? Was Stoddard thus merely using the grant "to swing UNESCO . . . back" into the schools again? "Pink Socialism." cried the paper-and Stoddard was forced to drop the grant...
...Russians, at least, it appeared likely that U.N.'s Assembly would create a trusteeship-on paper-and hand the problem to U.N.'s underworked Trusteeship Council: the Russians suddenly decided to take their seat on that Council, after boycotting it for 13 months...
...could paint more," Hopper says. "I get sick of reading and going to the movies. I'd much rather be painting all the time, but I don't have the impulse. Of course I do dozens of sketches for oils-just a few lines on yellow typewriter paper-and then I almost always burn them. If I do one that interests me, I go on and make a painting, but that happens only two or three times a year...
...Canada may also help fuel the U.S. inflation she fears. Her biggest exports are lumber, wood products and paper-and the U.S. buys most of them. If Canadian lumber and papermen boost prices in U.S. dollars in order to maintain their profit margins, then U.S. manufacturers may have to boost prices in their turn, and there will be more outside inflation pressuring Canada...