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Pregame sports papers with special cartoons by "Sav" have continued in an even grander way, however, along with frequent post game extras. A couple of steals were perpetrated on Yale in its own territory of New Haven in both 1906 and 1940, "scooping" the Yale News both times. The latter was quite frankly a fake, since the reader, after being attracted by the blazing headline "HARLOWMEN THUMP BLUES," was referred for the score to a non-existent page three...
Also in production in Detroit were Vogue recordings. Made of vinylite with an aluminum core, Vogue records are put out by smart, young (29) Tom Saffady, president of Detroit's beanstalking Sav-way Co. (TIME, March 27, 1944). Vogue recordings will be chiefly of popular music and will be sold in such outlets as drugstores and motion-picture lobbies. As a sales tickler, Vogue records will have pictures of singers under the surface of the transparent plastic. Price: between 50? and 75? apiece...
Despite the Rube Goldbergish sound of some of his gadgets, Tom Saffady has cashed in heavily on his tinkering. At 27, he is owner and manager of Detroit's Sav-Way Industries. Frequently, he puts in as many as 16 hours a day in his sleek, paneled office, with its private bar, or in his four plants, humming with war contracts. Net income of his company last year: $400,000. Last week he had something besides inventions up his sleeve. He was working on a plan to cut his 600-odd employes in on profits...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
...Though Sav-Way is strictly a war baby, Saffady is unworried about the future. He expects to boost his gross another $1,500,000 this year to $6,000,000; he also expects to cut his prices so his net will remain the same, and thus save him the bother of renegotiation. At war's end he expects most of his present business to vanish. Then he will simply riffle through his inventions, decide which ones can be made easily in his plants. He will farm out the rest. But he has no intention of expanding beyond his present...