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Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art had to wait two years to buy a Still. But Buffalo's burgeoning Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a museum to Still's taste. He admired Director Gordon Smith's willingness in 1959 to show 72 Still paintings all at once, because Still believes that he cannot be under stood properly in small doses. Last week he gave 31 paintings (estimated value: more than $1,000,000) to the Albright-Knox, possibly an alltime record for an artist's generosity...
From Uganda to Indianapolis. The world's biggest rubber-goods manufacturer outside the U.S., London-based Dunlop has 51 plants in Britain and 60 more in 15 countries, including one in Buffalo, N.Y. Though its sales rank behind those of the U.S.'s big four (Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), Dunlop boasts that it is the most technologically advanced and versatile of the lot. American tires are meant for high-speed driving on well-paved streets, but Dunlop develops different tires for different kinds of roads. Its Hi-Mubroad-tread tires are specially designed to grip wet British...
...Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros hides, an elephant's foot-and an arsenal of small arms...
MELVIN H. BAKER personally sold $1,000,000 worth of stock to set up National Gypsum Co. 39 years ago in a ramshackle Buffalo building. At 78, Baker is still going strong-and so is Gypsum, whose $250 million sales in 1963 make it a giant in the building-products industry. Baker can be harshly protective toward his creation: he once abolished a whole department for socializing on the job. But the Tennessee-born onetime beaverboard salesman softens over children, spends Sundays entertaining his six grandchildren at his Buffalo penthouse. He also has solid business reasons for liking kids: more...
...Harvard winners are: Richard H. Grossman '64, of Lowell House and Beverly Hills, Calif; Alfred F. Guzzetti '64, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia, Pa.; and James A. Shapiro '64, of Leverett House and Chicago, Ill. The fourth winner, Sanford D. Greenberg, of 19 Wendell St., Cambridge, and Buffalo, N.Y., is a second-year government student at the Graduate School...