GARFINKO-NOSTINKO
Easy on the Nostrils, But Hard on the Dirt
The other two cards were smaller. One bore the words:
KINZO BOWSER
The other had written on it:
JOHN BOWSER
J. Sanford Bowser leaned back in a gray easy-chair, stretched out his long legs and studied for many minutes the cards.
Abruptly he stood erect; dynamically his teeth clicked. With quick hands he seized the Garfinko Nostinko card and the John Bowser card and tore them into small bits.
“Thinking out loud,” he said—a favorite expression of his—“I intend to be master in my own office and in my own home.”
He jabbed a buzzer button. Two thousand employees of The Bowsers, Inc., breathed again. They knew that the big decision had been made.