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Last week, troubled by failing eyesight, S. S. Kresge at 98 retired as chairman of the company he has nurtured for 69 years. Turning to younger blood, Kresge directors gave the chairmanship to S. S.'s son, Stanley, 66, who last year had to relinquish his vice-presidency upon reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age for operating personnel. The company's day-to-day operations will continue to be under control of $163,400-a-year President Harry B. Cunningham...
...good paintings and 500 fun ones," and his display of pre-Columbian artifacts at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's finest. Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated's second acquisition in 1966 (the other: E. Kahn's Sons of Cincinnati, a meat processor with sales of $45 million) and the 44th since Cummings organized the company 26 years ago. Now the U.S.'s fastest...
TELL NO MAN, by 73-year-old Adela Rogers St. Johns (444 pages; Doubleday; $5.95), is a soap opera of flapping metaphors and dangling syntax that asks: Can an "upstanding, up-and-coming, go-getting, moneymaking, sports-minded, about-town-business-and-Yale man" chuck his $50,000-a-year job and find happiness as a minister? The gospel according to St. Johns is a turgid yes, provided that he preaches a theology based on the teachings of Rebecca West, Billy Graham, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, J. D. Salinger, Jakob Bohme and Damon Runyon. Tell...
...program first began-25 years, 81,000,000 registrants and 13,500,000 inductees ago. There are the predictable complaints about deferment of such people as New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath (4F with a legitimately bum knee) and Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, $200,000-a-year Actor George Hamilton (3A because he is his mother's sole support...
...primary goal of the war on poverty-to keep the Negro quiet-stems from political motives, not from a humanitarian desire to improve the lot of the poor. Negroes realize this, and this is why they are rebelling against Shriver and his $20,000-a-year...