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...worth only one-third that amount," Murchison amended his original estimate of his personal wealth. He was really worth, he guessed, "about $30 million." Added Murchison: "I consider money to be the same as manure. If you pick it up and put it out in the fields and till it, you get good returns . . ." Cracked Referee Fitzsimmons, dryly: "$20 million is a lot of fertilizer...
...Funny, my eye," roared the host. "Wait till you see what he says about you girls. He makes you all sound like a bunch of overcompensating sexpots...
...Socrates exuberantly engaged in the circumstances of Republican revolution, held sway over the liveliest minds of the Spanish-speaking world. Disagreeing sometimes with his great fellow philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, he was to be found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper (the liberal El Sol) and the most widely quoted Spanish review (Revista de Occidente) of the day. He launched political...
...National, McNamara found trouble everywhere. After the death in 1936 of George S. Rasmussen, its Danish immigrant founder (in 1899), the company went into the red. Finally, John McKinlay, a former president of Marshall Field & Co., got control. Under him, the chain stayed in the red till 1940, when the war put it into the black. McNamara found the chain burdened by paper work and centralized control that failed to respond to local needs. McNamara set up nine semiautonomous branches, whose managers do their own buying, advertising and pricing. He bought out nine competing companies (358 stores), closed up white...
...economic situation is basically shipshape. Turkey's foreign-exchange deficits, Zorlu explains, are paltry little imbalances caused by the passing inconvenience of a couple of drought-shriveled harvests in a row. All the country needs is a "fund of maneuver," say $300 million, to see it through till the development program starts paying off around 1958. This, Zorlu insists, is where the U.S. should step in with its purse. Says Zorlu: "Turkey is confident of itself. We can overcome our difficulties even alone-but we will arrive more quickly if we are aided...