Word: whyte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleased by this unmarxist revolution-especially the revolutionaries triumphant in their suburbs-but since World War II, a whole school of literature has sprung up worrying about the situation. The "whitecollar mob" and the "lonely crowd" have become the objects of much nervous concern. William H. (for Hollingsworth) Whyte Jr., an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, is the latest and perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation and worries...
...liked what he got so well that he ordered more. Several of Alldredge's friends became equally enthusiastic and began buying Escher prints by mail order too. Alldredge began plumping for an Escher exhibition in Washington, organized a committee of sponsors to back the showing and talked the Whyte Gallery into a date. Last week TIME was able to report that the show was both a critical and commercial success. Prints were selling so fast that a new supply had to be ordered from Holland...
...speak plain American, and can point to 2,000,000 daily readers to back up its opinion. The News is constantly reminded of its own vulgar virtues-sometimes from rather surprising quarters. The latest was a series of articles (just published as a book) in FORTUNE, by William H. Whyte Jr., called Is Anybody Listening?-an attack on the confused and confusing manner in which U.S. business generally expresses itself. Pointing to itself with pride as an example of how to do it, the News approvingly listed its own rules for getting people to listen...
Buyer, Beware! In Detroit, Car Dealer Ray Whyte quickly repaired his mammoth "Whyte Oldsmobile" sign after the last two letters of his name burned...