“A designer and a manufacturer”

Boy Staunton, sugar magnate, president and managing director of Alpha Corporation, praises the Reverend George Maldon Leadbeater, “a great prophet from a fashionable New York church”:


Robertson Davies, Fifth Business (1970).

I think the Reverend must owe something to Norman Vincent Peale, no?

Also from this novel
“Fellows of the first importance” : “Visible branch establishments” : “Like a duck to water”

[I skipped a line in transcribing. The passage now reads as Davies wrote it.]