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Alumni like Gordon play the role of the ten-pin in this game of financial persuasion. Their work began during last fall's Campaign kickoff, when fund drive officials commissioned a dozen Harvard grads, all New York City businessmen, to meet and brain-storm about possible sources of Big Bucks. William S. Olney '46, director of corporations and foundations in the development office, says this conclave of presidents, board chairmen, and directors tries to woo potential munificent givers by convincing them that by helping Harvard (to distort the old saying), they'll be helping themselves: "Say they approach a major...
...award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...
...learn reading. And if they met on Sunday, that was because it was the only day they had free. For Raikes' proteges were children of England's new industrial poor. They had no schools. Six days a week, starting at age seven, they worked in the local pin mills, sometimes for 15 hours...
Ultimately, the Ford men and the Reagan men failed because they talked past each other across the deeply carpeted rooms. Reagan's aides concentrated on creating that "dream ticket" that would, they felt certain, get their chief to the White House. Ford's aides struggled to pin down exactly what their chief would do if he returned to Washington as the first President ever to step down to the vice presidency. All the while, George Bush, who was ultimately to benefit from the try that failed, sat silently by, a nearly forgotten spectator...
...humor is wry and derisive. Explains Harry Reasoner, a longtime colleague at CBS: "Andy sees something portentous or pompous and puts a pin in it." Not long ago, he journeyed to Pottstown, Pa., in search of Mrs. Smith of Mrs. Smith's Pies; there was no Mrs. Smith, he discovered, only the executives of Kellogg's. On another occasion, a seductive sales pitch set him to wondering. "Save $1,253 on a Saab," he mused. "I mean, if you bought eight or ten Saabs a year, you can save enough to buy a Mercedes...