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25 Callisthenes, ‘Ivory Towers’, The Times, 17 April 1926, p.10. Later, the same figure was used, in the same context, to insist that the businessman should not keep himself in an Ivory Tower: idem, ‘I am a business man’, The Times, 11 May 1928, p. 14: ‘When a man says, “I am a business man,” that is usually the end of the matter. capital tower