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Despite these efforts, the casualty insurance industry remains on shaky ground. "Investment has saved the bacon for everybody," says James Kemper Jr., president of Chicago's Kemper insurance group. "If we were in the investment climate of the 1950s or had a market break like 1962's, a lot of us would be in trouble." Kemper has taken over three faltering casualty companies in the past 15 months because he believes that there is strength in consolidation, but he makes a gloomy prognosis: increasing casualties among the casualty companies...
...lightning, tricolored smoke, tankers, sail boats and quiet pastoral scenes stand 110 greats of the history of science. To make things less bewildering for the literate, Dufy labeled the figures. Originally he painted all of them - Archimedes, who once ran naked through the streets of Syracuse, Thales, Aristotle, Leonardo, Bacon, Galileo, Faraday, Pascal, Morse, Edison, Bell, Helmholtz-in the nude. Then he had extras from the Comédie Franchise model period costumes while be dressed up his pantheon...
...slow burn. One morning fortnight ago, he said Mass, then went to the Greater Los Angeles Press Club and loosed his thunderbolt against the cardinal. He spent the rest of the day, heart in mouth, teaching some of the parish kids how to play a game called "Steal the Bacon...
...glass-walled room, from whence the diner can look out over a flower-sprinkled moat. For an appetizer, the soft clam pan roast is hard to beat; it is best followed by tasty mignons of tenderloin flared in bourbon or stuffed broiled lobster and wilted dandelion greens with bacon. Fine fare at Fair prices, which means quite high indeed...
...foothills of the French Maritime Alps near his home in sunny Menton. But he says: "Can you imagine anything more boring than painting mountain gorges?" And what emerges on canvas, as recollected in his studio, is less like Turner than the work of his close friend Francis Bacon, the painter of screaming popes. Sutherland's is a world that bristles with spiky artichokes and cacti or the angular postures of grasshoppers and mantises...