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...tidy empire, Spayth has no heir apparent. His only son wants to stay in the drug business; his only daughter has a family to raise. Last week, at 66, Spayth was hunting for a successor with a characteristically flip and frank tactic. WANTED-A SUCKER LIKE I WAS, read his want ad in the Publishers' Auxiliary, a Chicago trade paper. Spayth's scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Until Death . . . | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Tientsin (where 59-year-old Widow Mary Frances Richard, a U. S. citizen, last week had her face slapped for sassing a sentry). Japan did not capture the objective she seemed to want-British acquiescence in Japanese control of North China currency; but she did achieve what she really wanted-a breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency issue. There being nothing more to talk about, British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie buzzed off to Lake Chuzenji. This left Japan in' just the self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Far Eastern Front | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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