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...many foreign visitors, and some Americans, heart disease has become the typical American illness. The U.S., so the argument goes, is the land of tension and conflict. Men work too hard, play too hard, worry too hard. The image of the tycoon who, at 50, has attained money, success, a yacht and coronary thrombosis is almost part of American folklore. Today, more than ever, anxious men (far more than women) of middle age are scurrying to doctors' offices for a heart checkup. More than two-thirds will be told that they have nothing to worry about; the others...
Died. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 87, "Father of Physical Culture," onetime publishing tycoon who bossed an empire of 13 magazines and ten newspapers (True Story, True Detective, Liberty, etc.) with a total estimated monthly circulation of 16 million; of jaundice, aggravated by a three-day fast; in Jersey City. The frail son of an alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times...
Died. Andrew Weir, Baron Inverforth, 90, British shipping (Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co., Ltd.) and communications tycoon, Minister of Munitions (1919-21); in London...
...months ago, at the Inter-American Investment Conference in New Orleans, Shipping Tycoon Rudolf Hecht suggested the formation of a U.S.-sponsored company to provide capital for Latin American companies by buying their securities. Last week Pennroad Corp., TIME Inc. (which publishes editions of some of its magazines in Latin America) and South American Gold & Platinum Co. announced that they are forming just such an investment company called the Interamerican Capital Corp. It will be the first big-risk capital corporation set up "for the primary purpose of making diversified, direct commitments" in Latin American business...
...Stupid Is the Enemy? The book is full of comic businessmen, who are not only capitalist bloodsuckers, but suckers for the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. The saddest of them is a tycoon named Henry J. Baxter, who dies hilariously, falling down on the path to his $3,000,000 private bomb shelter because he just would not believe that the Russians developed the H-bomb for the benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows...