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Besides Bledsoe, the other founders of Arlington Books include Arthur B. Silverman, associate editor, and William R. Polk '51, research fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, senior editor. Assisting these there is a board of 35 advisers, including six Harvard professors. Five Faculty members serve on a smaller board of editors...
...blooded banker once associated with the idea of Morgan & Co. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., son of a grain and feed merchant, went to Vanderbilt ('23) and Yale Law School. He worked on Morgan affairs as a partner of the giant Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk, so impressed J. P. Morgan Jr. that he became a Morgan partner in 1939. He became chairman in 1955, with a reputation for topflight banking and for building Morgan's staff. In line with Morgan's new look, Alexander does a lot of traveling, tells prospects: "When...
...possible for the single-minded consumer to buy a car or appliance that is practically custom-made-but he inevitably pays for the privilege. "Imagine the poor woman who walks into our refrigerator showroom to buy a refrigerator," says Maurice Leifler, executive sales director of Chicago's Polk Brothers discount chain. "She looks around and sees 55 different models. Where does she start?" The buyer is so baffled that she often does...
...Committee, carried only 51.3% of the district in 1956 against Democrat Leonard Wolf, who has been campaigning ever since. In the Fifth (Des Moines) district, Republican Paul Cunningham won by only 51.1% in 1956, is slightly favored over Democrat Neal Smith, who is hurt by a split in the Polk County party organization...
...this touched off a wave of frenzied price cutting in many cities, as everyone tried to undercut the competition. Manhattan stores sold $39.95 G.E. clock radios for $27.95; Los Angeles retailers chopped waffle irons from $22.95 to $15.88; Chicago's Sol Polk cut his discount prices on electric skillets from $12.95 to $9.98, and hurried to order another 10,000 small appliances. Yet in many other U.S. cities, the news stirred hardly a ripple. In Washington, D.C., Detroit, Dallas, Denver and dozens of other markets, Fair Trade on these items has long since died. Said a Milwaukee department-store...