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...cleverest: "But the red-letter day in Mr. Andrews' life was the day he became a Trotskyite! . . . The figure of the whiskered war commissar wearing a white uniform and riding in his armored train or reading French novels during Politburo meetings captured his imagination. He demanded that Mr. Schneider recruit him to the Trotskyite group...
Although a public market for shares can also potentially help an agency to raise expansion cash and recruit fresh talent by offering stock options, some of Foote, Cone's competitors were skeptical about letting the investors in. A Young & Rubicam executive thought that the public disclosure of low agency profits would soon disillusion investors. Others felt that an agency's shares would plummet whenever it lost a rich account. But many on Madison Avenue were reconsidering. Said President Rudolph Montgelas of the Ted Bates agency, the nation's fifth largest: "If Foote, Cone is a great success...
...thought he saw a way to do better still. Hearing that his University of Illinois classmate, Charles Luckman, had been fired from his $300,000-a-year job as president of the U.S. branch of Lever Bros., Pereira could not resist the chance to recruit an old pal. Off went a letter to Chuck, accompanied by a package containing the plans Luckman had made as his final school project?for a monastery. "For 20 years I've had my eye on this guy," wrote Pereira to Luckman. "That's why I've saved this. I think he's mature enough...
...found that some funds deliberately seek salesmen with little or no savvy in the securities business, recruit a large number in the armed forces to sell to buddies or subordinates, and have their salesmen play to the "fear, pride and patriotism" of prospective buyers. One brokerage firm that also specializes in selling training materials for fund salesmen-Kalb, Voorhis & Co.-advises them to use the "accidentally-on-purpose" technique: when filling out a fund contract, write in an astronomically high monthly investment-perhaps $250-to start the buyer "thinking...
Champagne in Streams. One major service Clemens performed for the Russians was to recruit a former SS colleague, Heinz Felfe. Cool and articulate, Defendant Felfe, 45, told the judges that he too was an ardent Nazi, had worked his way up into Heinrich Himmler's state security bureau. He bragged of his wartime successes, which he claimed included getting first reports on Teheran and Yalta from a confidant of Allen Dulles. After war's end he was classified by a German denazification board as unbelastet (not incriminated). This astonishing fact was acknowledged by Presiding Judge Kurt Weber with...