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Literary Rock Pile. Upon joining the colony each neophyte gets a copy of From Here to Eternity and a good look at Jones's sumptuous house on the western edge of town at the end of Beech Street. The house is complete with hi-fi set, high-powered hunting rifles, 3,500 books, pushbutton kitchen and Hollywood-style bathroom (with a French-style bidet...
...manner novel for a cemetery," one historian observes, "it became a favorite carriage drive for Boston families, and a show-place to which were taken famous visitors, like Dickens, Emporer Dom Pedro of Brazil, and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), who planted a purple beech tree...
...John) Stafford Ellithorp Jr., 61, former president of Beech-Nut Packing Co., was elected to the same post in the recently consolidated Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. (TIME, June 18). Ellithorp broke in as a chemist with the company 39 years ago, shortly after taking his B.S. at Syracuse University ('16). Still very much the chief executive of the combined companies: Life Saver Pioneer Edward John Noble, 74, board chairman...
...Noble is expected to be top boss of the merged company, Beech-Nut Life Savers Inc. W. Clark Arkell, 68, Beech-Nut board chairman (and son of Founder Bartlett Arkell), will have stock control, with some 10% of the 3,500,000 shares. Beech-Nut stockholders will get 1.2 shares in the merged corporation for each Beech-Nut share; Life Savers stock will be traded in on a share-for-share basis...
...management will consolidate sales organizations and let Life Savers (which also makes Pine Bros.' cough drops) take over Beech-Nut's chewing-gum business. Noble plans other economies. For example, Beech-Nut, which started out making hickory-cured ham in Canajoharie, N.Y. 65 years ago, has had an increasingly tough job competing in food lines with such giants as General Foods, Standard Brands and H. J. Heinz, could branch into higher-profit products. Bubbled Noble last week: "This will be one last fling...