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...Blame Me." The man who caused this commotion is an Australian citizen with a sharp chin, a penchant for maroon bow ties, and a salesman's exuberance and extroversion. Born in Brisbane, he was the fourth of the eleven children of Paul Schwarz, a Viennese Jew who was converted to Christianity, became a Pentecostal lay preacher, migrated to Australia for his health in 1905 and, after World War I, prospered as a dealer in war-surplus goods. Fred Schwarz graduated from Brisbane's University of Queensland with both science and arts degrees, took a post as a science...
...getting harder these days to tell a pin-striped banker from a shirt-sleeved discount-house salesman. With big bold ads, U.S. bankers who used to talk in dignified whispers are filling newspapers and airwaves with offers of higher interest rates on personal savings accounts. They are out to take business away from the faster-growing savings and loan associations, whose deposits since 1950 have swollen 500% (to $71 billion) while deposits in commercial banks have increased 200% (to $76 billion...
Dances & Planes. Born to a family that helped Brigham Young colonize Salt Lake City, Woodbury has been a dance band leader, real estate salesman, maker of light planes and then of lawnmowers (Wichita's Aircapital Manufacturers, Inc.). Woodbury served three years overseas as a missionary before attending college, but because of his devotion to church affairs in later life, he received a rare second "call'' to return to mission work. In England, he took over a mission that had only 10,000 members, a scattering of rundown churches, 160 proselytizers. Woodbury called for more missionaries from Salt...
Just then Foxy Moxy sidled up. Henny Penny hated Foxy Moxy, who was a successful storm window salesman, stock speculator, and pillar of the community of long-standing. Foxy Moxy had a proposition to make: "Friends, and you are my friends," he said, "suppose that the sky falls--and of course it won't. But if it does, what will we all need? Shelter, that's what. Shelter for ourselves, shelter for our possessions, shelter for our loved ones. And I just happen to have here with me contracts for the latest thing in shelters--Fox Holes, Patent Applied...
...Chairman James R. Dyer, 56, and Floor Transactions Committee Chairman John J. Mann, 54. Under their command, President Edward T. McCormick, 50, who resigned his $75,000-a-year job last month in a welter of criticism (TIME, Dec. 22), had his duties reduced to that of a fulltime salesman primarily concerned with getting new companies to list their stock on the Exchange. In at least ten cases, SEC said, McCormick put himself in a position to profit from new listings by buying stock before it went on the board...