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...Building, the employees have a saying: "Pick up any piece of paper with writing on it from any drawer or table, and you'll find Soriano's initials on it." Don Andres Soriano not only leaves his mark on a mountain of paper work, but keeps a thumb on just about everything that moves in the Philippines. He is the islands' best-known businessman, biggest philanthropist, runs an industrial empire which provides the livelihood for 80,000 Filipino families. His enterprises' taxes (close to $30 million a year) make up 10% of the government...
Occasionally the calloused thumb of an exchange editor is arrested in its perambulations through the weekly stacks of newsprint by an item to make the hand pause, the eye light, and the mind reel. As a public service we reprint parts of the following lead editorial from The Technique, semi-weekly spokesman of Georgia Tech. and self-designated as "The South's Livellest College Newspaper...
...behind the 802 tallied in the same week last year. ¶ The German-founded Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor gave a rule of thumb for judging the prospects of atomic-radiation victims: 1) all who do not vomit should live; 2) those who go on vomiting will die; 3) half of those who stop vomiting within a few hours will live. ¶ Britain's National Health Service started disciplinary action against a dentist...
...predict overwhelming success for Dr. Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers [TIME, July 9]. The picture of the hay rake in the child's mouth was so terrifying to my 3½-year-old daughter that she hasn't had her thumb in her mouth since...
...taste of American business methods this year at the Harvard Business School, Mr. Dalling-Hay, a graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, England, and a veteran of service with the Royal Navy, decided he would see the most interesting part of the United States standing by roadsides with his thumb up on route from Boston to Los Angeles. This letter, written on the eve of the All-Indian Pow-wow from a hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizons, records some of the impressions of a Public School Britisher confronting P. J. Booster...