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Austrian immigrant Bluhdorn took a run-down Michigan auto-parts distributor and built it into Gulf & Western Industries, a $2 billion marvel whose activities ranged from mining (New Jersey Zinc) to movies (Paramount Studios). By 1969, the former $15-a-week clerk was worth $50 million...
...point of this anecdote is that today, no business-news amateur, as I was, could ever nail such a job at a first-rate publication. Once a backwater, business reporting, writing and editing have become smart, sophisticated and the high-walled province of the expert, although it took the better part of 100 years to reach that status...
...Malcolm took charge in 1964 and found the go-go '60s a perfect platform for stories about swaggering entrepreneurs very much like himself. He put more emphasis on stock-market advice and edgy corporate pieces and used charm, guile and arm twisting to ratchet ad sales. He also promoted the hell out of his magazine, becoming the most influential Harley biker, hot-air balloonist and Faberge-egg collector...
TELEVISION A Russian-born American scientist, Vladimir K. Zworykin, demonstrated the first practical TV in 1929. But it took RCA, which owned NBC, 10 years before making the first national broadcast and producing its first line of TVs. In 1951 (the year I Love Lucy debuted) the networks extended broadcasting from the Northeast to the whole country...
SKATEBOARD California-no surprise-is the home of the skateboard. The sport, an orthopedist's best friend, took off in the 1970s after polyurethane wheels smoothed out the ride...