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...DURABLE FIRE (366 pp.)-Howard Swiggett-Houghton Mifflin...
Conditioned Reflex. The late Howard Swiggett (he died last March at 64) was the better author, and The Durable Fire is the livelier, more levelheaded book. Stephen Lowry, a new vice president of Continental Industries Corp., hopes to stockpile enough cash in ten years to get back to his unfinished book Principal Errors of Judgment of Rulers and Peoples Since the Reformation. Steve's principal error, as Author Swiggett sees it, seems to lie in thinking that a few miles of Long Island Railroad track can separate the company's time from his own. While Steve never becomes...
...company shake-up and the "durable fire" of his staunch and lovely wife's faith in him help Steve to reforge his faith in business and himself. Author Swiggett understands the paternalistic embrace in which the large, modern corporation holds its employees-but he vastly exaggerates it. His notion that the corporation makes or unmakes the man is on a par with all the determinist devil theories of history which hold that every evil of human life flows from the capitalistic "system," or from the machine, or from sunspots...
...that it is, in effect, bad diplomacy and even worse business to make a dollar and lose a friend. Perhaps no one will argue the point, but every American is entitled to resent the way the point is made. Scriptwriter Robert Ardrey, who worked from the novel by Howard Swiggett, unfortunately felt obliged to revive an ancient canard that has been a dead duck for a long time. Americans, the script suggests, are rich but vulgar; Europeans are poor but cultured...
...year Britain's Nigel Balchin published Private Interests and in 1952 the U.S.'s Cameron Hawley contributed Executive Suite. Fresh bows to the businessman are now made by Britain's Socialist Novelist J. B. Priestley in The Magicians and the U.S.'s Republican Novelist Howard Swiggett in The Power and the Prize. Priestley's book is suave, but wanders off into drawing-room speculation; Swig-gett's novel is crude, though closer to boardroom politics...