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...president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, genial, roughhewn Bernard Cornelius Duffy, 55, is a rare figure in the advertising world. Title to rarity: he has nearly quadrupled BBDO's billings (now $200 million), while showing remarkable personal stamina in the process. He pulled through a serious ulcer operation in which two-thirds of his stomach was cut away, and a coronary attack, bounced back each time to supervise the fortunes of the growing agency. Last week, five months after he suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage, Madison Avenue was wondering whether Ben Duffy could come back again...
Quick Comeback. Founded in 1919 by a roughhewn, forceful Dutch flyer named Albert Plesman, KLM inaugurated the world's first scheduled airplane passenger service in 1920 by flying from London to Amsterdam in a chartered de Havilland 16. By World War II it had a fleet of 51 planes, served 61 cities in 29 countries. In a few days Nazi bombers almost completely wiped it out. At war's end KLM had only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable...
They were double men, harking back nostalgically to the rustic, roughhewn virtues of the Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture...
...amon a clear, blue Pennsylvania Election Day, the new couple from the farm over on Route 10 stepped into the one-room,, white clapboard Cumberland Township election house outside Gettysburg. They identified themselves to an election official, and workers at the roughhewn wooden table checked their names in the record books. "Housewife."' said the listing of the woman's occupation. After her husband's name, the record read:"President of the United States."' Under the light of four naked electric light bulbs, by the heat of a small oil stove, the President of the U.S. marked...
...Bureau Federation, Chicago. The solid, conservative giant of U.S. farm organizations, with membership representing 1,623,000 farm families in 48 states and Puerto Rico, heavily concentrated in the corn belt states of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana (the Farm Bureau is sometimes facetiously called "The American Corn Bureau"). President: roughhewn, painfully serious Charles B. Shuman, 49, an Illinois stock and grain farmer, and a teetotaling Methodist Sunday school teacher. The American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s...