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THE MAN -AND THE MIND
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data and views, he has been reducing them to their essential terms, building up step by step his own course of action until he comes to one of those sound determinations from which he seldom swerves.
He is one half of a good reporter. He goes through the world with his eyes open, an acute collector of facts, human sidelights, even gossip. Remember that when he decided seriously to enter moving-picture exhibition, he studied the business in every aspect. But this acquisitive accumulation does not come forth in oral or written expression. Except in rare moments of relaxation, he avoids reminiscence. By a habit which has grown on him he states any old transaction of his complex career in its simplest, lowest terms. That vital struggle for control between production and distribution, for example — ask him about it, and he will answer, probably something like this:
“Then I saw that we had to have a system of distribution; and so we formed Paramount. After a year or so, I saw that the distributors were going to strangle distribution if they kept on. So I got control of Paramount.’’ Nothing more. His mind is a crucible into which he loads the raw ore of observation and draws it out pure steel; and then he wields that steel in action.
Not that he is inarticulate. Able men, when they care to express themselves, never are. However, Zukor talks most easily and naturally on abstractions and general principles — of his business, of politics, of life. In such