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Greeting Eaton, Mikoyan cooed: "When Mr. Khrushchev talked about you, his whole face was beaming." Now in his twilight years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he...
After reading TIME'S keynote address for the Rearward Pilgrimage to the Shapeless Void (or) Daddy Warbucks' School of Anniversary Reflections, I suggest that its Twi-speaking editors celebrate its 31st birthday with less sophistry and more eggs.
Now that Daddy Warbucks has been elected President, everything is going to be just dandy . . .
Torri's trade is rayon textiles. He is head man of gigantic and world-famed Snia Viscosa (40,000 employees). He signs himself "Torri" (Towers), he explained, because he has built three towering structures: an office building in Milan and factories near Venice and in Spain. His real name...
As such, he was a completely individualistic and often baffling combination of Daddy Warbucks, Captain Midnight, Scrooge and Salesman Sam. A product of McGuffey's Reader and the International Correspondence Schools, he had a fierce faith in God and in the attitudes and platitudes (an honest day's...