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...largest financial empires; of complications from an abdominal aneurysm; in New Orleans. A school dropout at 13, Ball was working as a salesman on the West Coast when Alfred du Pont, having married Ball's sister in 1921, hired him to run a Du Pont-owned tomato-canning plant. After Du Font's death in 1935, Ball took over the management of his estate, enlarging it to include the St. Joe Paper Co., two railroads and vast real estate loldings in Florida and Georgia...
...Lord Canning was once asked by a preacher how he enjoyed his sermon...
...Canning replied, 'You were brief.' 'Ah,' said the preacher, 'I always like to avoid being tedious.' Canning replied, 'You were also tedious.' So there is no absolute guarantee of success...
Representatives from the Medical School, an independent research organization and a Boston-area canning firm yesterday announced plans for the nation's first laboratory for dyslexia research...
...would not take him to be one of the CIA'S top men. Indeed, he is now unrecognized even by the CIA, particularly a slick, thick deskman (Ned Beatty) who makes the mistake of canning Matthau or not sticking by the book when he breaks up a Soviet spy ring in Munich. Walter's revenge is what the rest of the film is about...