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With his brewery profits, Soriano has bought mines, dairies, factories, forests, a radio station, owns the third largest Coca-Cola bottling franchise in the world, acts as Philippine agent for five insurance firms, distributor for Philip Morris cigarettes and Lord Calvert whiskey. Nor are his interests purely local. He controls Kansas City's George Muehlebach Brewing Co., bosses gold mines in British East Africa, a development company in Spain. His holdings stretch so far & wide that one top executive, who has been with him 15 years, says: "I still haven't been able to memorize even the names...
...richness and relaxation. He used its rocks as a kind of underpainting for his composition, and green verdure as a final glaze. He divided it with lakes and streams, wove it together with curving paths and driveways, pointed up its natural loveliness with small, well-placed buildings designed by Calvert Vaux, an English architect...
Sponsored by the University's Roman Catholic Calvert Club, Adler faced a capacity crowd that jammed into Kent Hall, piled up in the aisles and overflowed into every available space. Then, for the next hour, he ripped into great chunks of Darwinian theory. Though he conceded that the Origin of Species (one of the Great Books) might properly describe the evolution of plants and animals, he flatly challenged Darwin's later hypothesis relating men to apes...
...keeping prices too low landed the Schwegmanns in court. They refused to sign a fair-trade agreement with Seagram and Calvert distillers, and sold their liquor at cut rates, despite Louisiana's fair-trade law that made such price-cutting illegal. Last week, after three years of battling right up to the U.S. Supreme Court, John Schwegmann triumphantly hung a sign in the middle of his supermarket...
Mercifully, the script omits the standard love interest. As if only for the record, it briefly establishes Ladd's romantic prowess in a token dalliance with Stewart's blonde mistress (well played by Jan Sterling). The real leading lady is a nun (Phyllis Calvert) who needs his protection as the only witness to the murder. Inspector Ladd, who usually measures his fellow man with cynical suspicion, soon finds himself softening under the example of her unselfish sense of duty. At this late date, moviegoers should not be surprised to learn that Nun Calvert wears lipstick and coaches baseball...