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Sometimes our staffs were keenly competitive, most of the time warmly cooperative. My own first job at Time Inc. was with LIFE as an advertising salesman in 1954. When I moved to TIME in 1957 and went on to compete for LIFE's readers and advertisers, my bonds with the LIFE staff remained strong. That experience was typical. One of LIFE's great managing editors, John Shaw Billings, had earlier been managing editor of TIME. Many LIFE staffers, including Editor Thomas Griffith, began their careers at TIME. In turn, the TIME staff has benefited from many LIFE graduates...
David J. Mahoney, the ebullient, $350,000-a-year chief executive of Norton Simon Inc., looks like a movie hero, talks like a salesman in a hurry and is willing to go out on a limb. At the start of each of the past three years, Mahoney predicted that the earnings of the widely diversified food, drink and publishing company would increase by at least 15%. He has hit the mark every time. Now, bent on building N.S.I, into a consumer-products giant that would equal Procter & Gamble and Unilever, Mahoney has begun a major drive for acquisitions...
...winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin's-egg blue sports jacket and ocher slacks...
...Little; stocky Mercury Morris (5 ft. 10 in., 190 lbs.) runs around them. When their runners are stopped, or their passes fall incomplete, the Dolphins figure to get points from the talented instep of another new Miami folk hero: soccer-style Place Kicker Garo Yepremian, an off-season tie salesman who was born in Cyprus, of all places, and who led the A.F.C. in scoring last year...
...told TIME Correspondent Paul Hathaway, "a black clerk was as rare as a white crow. Now they are all over the place." He pressured such giants as Safeway Stores and A&P into hiring blacks for the first time. When one leading auto dealer hired a black salesman, Hobson thanked the company by buying his first Ford there...