Greed, Treed, Second Lead, Low Breed
Killing Peter to Hire Paulbearers
Peter Drucker, a pioneering thinker on management strategies, has died at the age of 95. One of the first to embrace a work week of fewer than 117 hours and wages of more than a turnip an hour, Drucker viewed an educated work force as a resource rather than a cost, knocking him off the Christmas card list of many executives. Drucker also had a bit of Kreskin about him, anticipating the inflation of the 1970s, the rise of Japanese manufacturers and the decline of unions. Course, he also published an article on the successes of the stock market shortly before the 1929 crash. He also worked with nonprofit organizations, encouraging them to think like businesses and warning that they would be judged on results, not intentions. An especially noteworthy observation most of us can appreciate: “Either one meets or one works.”
Most germane to our purposes: "Marketing is a fashionable term. The sales manager becomes a marketing vice president. But a gravedigger is still a gravedigger even when it is called a mortician - only the price of the burial goes up." Monty was the only one to expect the costly day for Mr. Drucker, and his WSM DOA moves into 16th place.
He’s a Lumberjack and He’s DOA
Steve Courson, a former offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, has died at the age of 50 after a tree he was cutting down fell on him. An undrafted free agent guard from South Carolina, Courson worked out like a man with an axe to grind in order to make the team. A lineman of sturdy timber, Courson logged time on the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowl championship teams, winning two rings. Courson also saw action with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The first NFL player to admit to steroid use, Courson battled the resultant health problems in recent years, but had turned over a new leaf. After his career ended, he branched out to publicly criticize the NFL testing policy and warn high school athletes about the risks of steroid use.
North Goes Due South
Sheree North, best known to many as Cosmo Kramer’s mother Babs, has died of surgical complications at the age of 72. In the 1950s, if you wanted to sex up your movie and couldn’t get Marilyn Monroe or Jane Russell or Jayne Mansfield or Mamie Van Doren or Vera Miles or Kim Novak or Betty Hutton or Tippi Hedren or Betty Grable, then you had to get Sheree North. Or Mitzi Gaynor. Other roles for North included the saloon singer with an attitude who seduces Lout Grant in the 100th episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, turning the notorious crank into a 200-pound bumblebee zipping around the newsroom wearing mauve, John Wayne’s ex-fiancee Serepta who tries to cash in on the dying gunslinger’s fame in The Shootist.
Caste Off
K.R. Narayanan, who rose from the lowest levels of Indian society to become president, has died at the age of 85. A member of the “untouchables” class, Narayanan assumed the presidency in 1997, fulfilling the vision of the nation’s founder Mohandas Gandhi. 1992.
Peter Drucker, a pioneering thinker on management strategies, has died at the age of 95. One of the first to embrace a work week of fewer than 117 hours and wages of more than a turnip an hour, Drucker viewed an educated work force as a resource rather than a cost, knocking him off the Christmas card list of many executives. Drucker also had a bit of Kreskin about him, anticipating the inflation of the 1970s, the rise of Japanese manufacturers and the decline of unions. Course, he also published an article on the successes of the stock market shortly before the 1929 crash. He also worked with nonprofit organizations, encouraging them to think like businesses and warning that they would be judged on results, not intentions. An especially noteworthy observation most of us can appreciate: “Either one meets or one works.”
Most germane to our purposes: "Marketing is a fashionable term. The sales manager becomes a marketing vice president. But a gravedigger is still a gravedigger even when it is called a mortician - only the price of the burial goes up." Monty was the only one to expect the costly day for Mr. Drucker, and his WSM DOA moves into 16th place.
He’s a Lumberjack and He’s DOA
Steve Courson, a former offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, has died at the age of 50 after a tree he was cutting down fell on him. An undrafted free agent guard from South Carolina, Courson worked out like a man with an axe to grind in order to make the team. A lineman of sturdy timber, Courson logged time on the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowl championship teams, winning two rings. Courson also saw action with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The first NFL player to admit to steroid use, Courson battled the resultant health problems in recent years, but had turned over a new leaf. After his career ended, he branched out to publicly criticize the NFL testing policy and warn high school athletes about the risks of steroid use.
North Goes Due South
Sheree North, best known to many as Cosmo Kramer’s mother Babs, has died of surgical complications at the age of 72. In the 1950s, if you wanted to sex up your movie and couldn’t get Marilyn Monroe or Jane Russell or Jayne Mansfield or Mamie Van Doren or Vera Miles or Kim Novak or Betty Hutton or Tippi Hedren or Betty Grable, then you had to get Sheree North. Or Mitzi Gaynor. Other roles for North included the saloon singer with an attitude who seduces Lout Grant in the 100th episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, turning the notorious crank into a 200-pound bumblebee zipping around the newsroom wearing mauve, John Wayne’s ex-fiancee Serepta who tries to cash in on the dying gunslinger’s fame in The Shootist.
Caste Off
K.R. Narayanan, who rose from the lowest levels of Indian society to become president, has died at the age of 85. A member of the “untouchables” class, Narayanan assumed the presidency in 1997, fulfilling the vision of the nation’s founder Mohandas Gandhi. 1992.
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