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Sure enough, Farmer Cutler showed newsmen three tailor-made suits that Lyndon had sent him. "They makes me feel just like I'm a Senator myself," he chuckled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: This Old House . . . | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Scoring Strikes. Frank Gordon, a G.I. who stayed on in Germany to work for Radio Free Europe, began looking for his own business in 1957. "My idea was that America was 15 years ahead of Germany, and all I had to do was to find an American idea and tailor it to fit the German mentality." Result: he and Partner Leo Horrigan settled upon their own Musik fur Millionen, which pipes soothing background music into offices, bars, hotels and stores in six German cities. Three young Americans-Cecil Altmann, Robert S. Mackay, and John F. Herming-haus-pooled their savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Exporting the Dream | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...floor space, houses a 350-seat theater, staff offices, closed-circuit TV system and studio, barbershop, beauty shop, radio studio, tailor shop, newspaper office, bank, post office, 17-bed hospital, twelve-man jail, four-lane bowling alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: The Elegant White Elephant | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...curriculum is tailor-made to the problems of Central America." Smith said, "although it is not strictly confined to them." Instruction will be given by means of informal discussion, mainly of cases written by members of a research team that spent the summer in the region under the direction of Lodge and Thomas C. Raymond, professor of Business Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Faculty to Conduct Management Program in Guatemala | 12/17/1963 | See Source »

...Jean-Louis Barrault as the count, but soon he was saying to Barrault: "I don't know whether it's your fault or mine, but I'm bored." His humility may come from the memory of his own beginning years. The son of a poor Protestant tailor from Bordeaux, Anouilh got a job as secretary to Director Louis Jou-vet at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees. He earnestly began writing plays, but whenever the great Jouvet saw Anouilh, he would say: "Here comes our failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playwrights: Cynicism Uncongealed | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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