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Winship has chosen a political man like himself -- a mellow dex-radical named Charlie Whipple--to head the editorial staff. As an undergraduate at Harvard in the '30's, Whipple was a card-carrying Communist and was arrested picketing Sears, Roebuck. After working his way from office boy to reporter on the Globe,he spent two years as a guild organizer before returning to the paper. (He no longer agrees with the guild and is not a member, but he remembers that he "gave it may all in those days...
Whatever the cost and whoever the decorator, the look that is in vogue in the '60s is openly, eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...
...captain for the Military Sea Transportation Service, but he beached himself in 1950 because he "found going to sea pretty dull in peacetime." Working ashore was not much more satisfactory. After a series of sales jobs in the U.S. and Canada, including a stint as a salesman for Sears, Roebuck, Simonsen decided to go back to sea vicariously-by teaching other people how to handle themselves afloat...
...help Venezuelan earthquake victims, and U.S. aid to allies in distress has been consistent ever since. Tripp's main problem, predictably, is coping with "bureaucratic bog-down": he often negotiates personally with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
...nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely," said Julius Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced," and to avoid that humiliation, he began investing a personal estate of $400 million in the public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with...