If there is any truth to the old maxim that there is a direct correlation between musical virtuosity and mathematical wizardry, then retiring Time Inc. Group Vice President, Magazines, Arthur Keylor is a case in point. He came to this company 32 years ago as a young man with a horn (best schoolboy trumpet player in New England) and a Harvard Business School degree. He has been making beautiful music ever since his first days in the comptroller's department, where, he recalls, "I had little knowledge of accounting, but there I was closing the books."
Last week he concluded on a high...