Word: beane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Leon L. Bean, 94, founder of Maine's L. L. Bean, Inc., one of the world's best-known sellers of sporting goods; of heart disease; in Pompano Beach, Fla. (see U.S. Business...
...outdoorsman's hunting ground it may be, but L. L. Bean, Inc. is also an efficiency expert's nightmare. It stashes incoming mail in shirt boxes. Once it lost $125,000 in business when a list of 40,000 would-be customers was mistakenly destroyed. Under a garish, multicolored letterhead, its owner once answered a formal appointment request by advising "I am personally away more or less." When he died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that...
Among world commodities, coffee ranks second only to oil in export value -and until recently it placed No. 1 in unmanageability. A mere 10-per-lb. price fluctuation means $50 million to the producing countries. In Latin America, where many countries rely on the bean for 45% or more of their export earnings, wild price swings have been known to break treasuries and trigger political upheaval. Yet increasingly, thanks to the U.S. inspired International Coffee Organization, the world's coffee fits are being confined to the conference table...
...Among them: the late James Rorimer, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; Met Curators Theodore Rousseau and Jacob Bean; Museum of Modern Art Curator William Lieberman; Chicago Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham; National Gallery Director John Walker; Harvard's Fogg Art Museum Director John Coolidge; Fogg Assistant Director Agnes Mongan; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone; Morgan Library's Curator Felice Stampfle; Toledo Museum Director Otto Wittman...
...assignments took the Childs away from Paris, first to Marseille, then to West Germany, then back to Washington, and finally to Norway. All the while Julia and "Simca," as she calls Simone Beck, corresponded furiously, including one epic discussion of cassoulet. The question at issue: Must the bean dish include preserved goose? Their conclusion...