Fortune Classic

George Romney: Businessman in a Political Jungle (Fortune, 1964)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week we turn to a story from 1964, which takes a look at the political journey of the late George Romney, father of Mitt Romney, who's seeking the GOP nomination for the 2012 U.S. presidential race. Similar to his father, Mitt Romney was known for his business acumen before jumping into politics. George Romney might have lost MORE

The Ups and Downs of the Fuller Brush Co. (Fortune, 1938)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week we turn to a story from 1938, which chronicles the highs and lows of the Fuller Brush Co. The Great Bend, Kan.-based cleaning-products maker was founded in 1906 and became known for its door-to-door salesmen, who belted the  familiar greeting, "I'm your Fuller Brush Man." Earlier this week, Fuller Brush filed for bankruptcy less than two MORE

China after Marx: Open for business? (Fortune, 1985)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week we turn to a cover story from 1985, when a Communist newspaper declared Karl Marx irrelevant to China's plans for economic expansion. Today, 27 years later, many U.S. businesses are thriving in China but the relationship between the U.S. and China is not without strife. China vice president Xi Jinping, who is expected to become the MORE

The Simplot Saga: How America's French Fry King Made Billions More in Semiconductors (Fortune, 1995)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we look back at the wild and wooly tale of billionaire J.R. Simplot and the Idaho chip manufacturer he backed, Micron Technology. Micron's CEO Steve Appleton died when a small plane he was piloting crashed earlier this month in Boise. Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer wrote the piece in late 1995 and he remembers that MORE

The rise of Netscape

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we turn to a July 1995 item on the rise of a world-changing internet startup that would eventually pull off a blockbuster IPO: Netscape.

By Alison L. Sprout

FORTUNE -- Behold the power of MORE

The evolution -- and promise -- of the new united Europe (Fortune, 1990)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we turn to a September 1990 story from the annual power confab in Davos, which was also going on this week. Its author, the legendary Marshall Loeb, writes of the dawn of a new era for Europe and asks about the decades to come.

By Marshall Loeb

FORTUNE -- The 1990s may well be the Decade of Europe, an era MORE

Can Big Business learn to live with Newt Gingrich? (Fortune, 1995)

The leaders of corporate America have never been his biggest fans. But while they still don't want him in the White House, they love the way he runs Congress. By Ann Reilly Dowd with Madeline Jaynes

How manager Gingrich gets it done (Fortune, 1995)

FORTUNE -- If what really wows CEOs about Newt is his ability to get things done, a question naturally arises: How does he do it? By now, most people know Gingrich is a keen reader of books by the like of quality guru W. Edwards Deming and Peter Drucker (whose The Effective Executive is one of Newt's favorites), and a student of the tactics of leaders like the Duke of MORE

Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle? (Fortune, 1987)

Bain & Co. gets its hands ''deep in the trousers of client companies,'' says an executive who knows it well. Maybe too deep, the Guinness scandal suggests. By Nancy J. Perry with Susan Caminiti

Embattled Kodak enters the electronic age (Fortune, 1983)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, as Eastman Kodak prepares for a possible bankruptcy filing, we look back as the company that Fortune called "the slow, deliberate master of the photographic industry" prepared for the fast-paced digital age.

The going was tough for Kodak, even then. This story provides a backgrounder on some of its most innovative technology, as well as the MORE