Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a citizens' committee asked him to head the "Hire the Handicapped Week" for Houston in 1949, Anderson accepted, but only on condition that hiring the handicapped be a year-round project for local industries. On his return to the Press, where he writes a fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours...
...section of a Salvation Army band, now plays tuba for both London's Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Symphony. Six weeks ago, he got an important call. The London Symphony, preparing for its soth jubilee concert, had asked Ralph Vaughan Williams, Britain's No. 1 composer, to write a special composition for the celebration. Vaughan Williams just happened to have a tuba concerto * lying around, agreed to have it played if the orchestra had a tubaman up to the job. Would Catelinet like to audition for Vaughan Williams? Into London's frisky traffic went Catelinet, his tuba...
Since diversification requires capital and involves considerable risk, big business is in a better position to try it than a small company. When a big corporation makes a mistake on a new product, it can afford to drop it quickly and write off the investment. A small business, facing a loss it can ill afford, cannot. One of the costliest mistakes of diversification, says Thompson Products President John David Wright, is for a manufacturer to "stick with his product long after it should be dropped, to prove he was right." Another great problem is to find the new executives needed...
...oldest son in a family of four sons and seven daughters. He was a rebellious, difficult child. When he was sent to school, the teacher asked him to spell "a." He couldn't, and the other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn...
...REFORMS asked by Eisenhower are taking shape in committee and are almost sure to be passed this session. Among the benefits to business: faster write-offs, permission to carry back losses for two years instead of one. To individuals: a cut in dividend taxation, bigger deductions for doctors' bills...