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...reeds and 200 plastic guitars. The editors' character revelations, which are bound up with statistics, are usually more fascinating than the inventories. Though the Maccaferris like strumming a ukulele "the music that gives him and his wife most pleasure is the whir of the adding machines"--which last year rang up gross sales of $3 million, on which the Maccaferris netted a "melodious" two hundred thousand after taxes. Throughout the book taxes play the role of a mild villain...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Business Success | 11/27/1957 | See Source »

From barrio to barrio, and on every city street corner, the name of Ramon Magsaysay rang across the Philippines last week. Election day was only four weeks off, and every presidential and congressional candidate was busily trying to identify himself with the late great President, who was killed in an airplane crash only seven months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: After Magsaysay, What? | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...never forget that the chief business of business is business. Whether gathered in small groups in the crowded lobby of the Fairmont Hotel, over cocktails in hotel suites or striding along San Francisco's streets, they found themselves working through the practicability of deals that ringed the globe, rang with the names of every free-world currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: CAPITAL OPPORTUNITIES | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...telephone rang, evidently a return call. "Well, hello," said Green. "As the sailor said to the girl, you got away before I wanted...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Toast With Johnny Green | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

...Offal. When the conference chair man rang a bell to signal the end of his speech, Hailsham ebulliently seized it, crying: "Ring it much more loudly! Let it ring for victory!" As 4,000 Tories came to their feet cheering, he slowed it to a solemn pace, saying: "Toll it solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chubby Orator | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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