STOP CREEPING COSTS”
PETER FORSTER
The cut and thrust of
air-conditioned
the
jungle
YOUR intrepid critic has just returned from a fascinating trip through
Ridge also has on
ex-wife
on hand who calls him Johnny. But she is currently la love with Claude, a Frenchman, whom she calls Claude.
Circulation of the maga- zines has. Improved but the frummediate financial situation is grave,
The flor is planning a new Ledyard, ONC
the jungle of Big Business, where nature is red in tooth and claw.
My guide-book was the big, best-selling American novel, THE series featuring VIEW FROM THE 40TH FLOOR, by Theodore H. White
188.)
(Cassell,
devoted secretary
at once tycoon, not tet:
General American staff and a the question is ob- of The view in
-named Laura, tained from the New York offler Puldishing Company. of Ridge Warren, once news-
it has to be admitted paperman, then a diplomat, now
that he is rather a dull president, chairman at
the
though at least he does board and chief 'executive officer
Laura he loves her.
CHANGED
Ridge has been called in tu balter up the falling fortunes of the company's two principal magazines. Ife hus a competent
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If you conclude that there is a surfeit of ad-man Americanese Jargon in this book, you con- lude rightly--te is considered fashion wise, statistic wise. policy-wise
wisecracking characters who seem to me sadly lacking' wisdom-wise.
by
"This is Hollywood talk!" exclaims somebody to Ridge, who is trying to raise more money-which
gosh-dara
true, and presumably explains why Gary Cuoper has just bought the novel's film rights for one of his horseless ap- Learances.
Shab Ridge lake the easy way out and sell the magazines? No, he belleves they have mission, and is determined to save them if possible. It is a dilemma which will particularly interest former readers of the News Chronicle.
"THERE'S"
GOING TO
CE A RUSSIAN
VICTORY AT LAST!
How Britain
saw it
In Britain, people tol- lowed the. Potemkin affair with acute interest, Thic humiliation of the Czar's regime. following so soon after Russia's catastrophic defeats at the hands of the Jupairese,
provided one cariponist with a sardonic comment.
the
CHASING THE PIRATES.
||BLACK SEA SQUADRON'S
SECOND ATTEMPT AT CAPTURE.
MORE OUTRAGES.
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Golenko, who had brought flls- aster to their cause when they were so close to ultimate troomph. The Potemkin's second surgeon was to become the sub- and ject of greater hatred
other than any figure in the 1805 revolution.
No one can say exactly what molives inspired Golonko. IL may be that he was simply try- In to prevent the loss of fur- ther lives; or that he saw more clearly than the others that the Potemkin's venture was doom-
POTEMKIN vituperation
MUTINY
PART FOUR
(Continued from Page 7)
and "The feeling of wer victory," weni en Feldman, shone in our faces, while the George, humbled and V- quished, passed again by ship which she had meant leave alone In the struggle with Czarism."
underestimated the
the to
ed,
But whatever his mollyes, he told the erew of the George that the Potemkin's ነርስ harl decided their cause was hope- Jess, and bad decided to retur to the naval base at Sevastopol and throw themselves on the mercy of the commander-in- chief
His editorial staff get together, form a committee, ond and that with managerial co-operation it
That was enangh, more than would be possible to gel the
With the counter-muliny
for the reluctant necessary tlding-over funds from crushed, the surrender appeared enough.
mutineers of the George. They sympathetic political sources--3 to be complete and unity re-
surrender convincingline of approach | established. But Matushenko decided to bet their which will particularly Interest had
cun- in first, and to confirm it by
40 en to militar former employees of the News ning
Ul the George's hy sending Chronicle.
officers, and was taken of his headquarters in Odessa to be And now, as the days of crisis guard when she sailed past the held as hostages.
Potemkin's bows again in state- Approach. when
Gutstanding bills for millions of dollars mustly alience and continued, on into
the harboux, - be met, the story begins to gain Intensity and holding power, a Mr White sheds most of his formula philosophising and.comn- centrates on the agonisingly real problemas of peonis-facing-un--Ten-Owusand-tons_of_ballic_ employment.
ship heading for disaster nt live knots: she was either out of Swiftly, in e vivid tour of the control or madman was at the Jungle. we follow Ridge as he helm. With the lide right out. within tries to raise the cash from an she would be aground
Jewish business friend, seconds. from a get-rich-quick operator, from an investment trust.
old
Humiliating
Strife-ridden since her de- parture, and as capricious as an
We learn too about the prob-over-indulged child, the George lems of organising his magazines -and remember that in America newspapers are mainly local, whereas magazines are national in distribution.
Tension
the Conqueror could hardly have chosen a more humiliating en to her disastrous voyage from Sevastopol.
Still at unreduced speed, she drove her stem deep into a con- cealed mud bank, swung her stern slowly round under the Impact, and came to rest neatly.
And all the time we catch but at an unnatural angle, hard
alongside the harbour's centre
the cut-and-thrust commercial atmosphere in what Henry mole. Miller once called
the air- conditioned nightmare" of New York.
Ridge loses his fight, but wins A moral victory by gaining severance pay for the staff in the course of
tense mandenivres on the buard of directors,
some
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And the ex-wife is waitin for him in the sunset. Poor old Claude is left alone and, I dare sy, very puzzled, in Paris.
A bulky, energetic, enthralling book, enkaneed by excellent- size type: the print of most current novels, treluding my own, is far too small.
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