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...wide-ranging interests of the company's president. In addition to running 87-year-old Maremont, which was founded by his father, he has interests in paper and in a maker of Christmas-tree balls, has backed a Broadway musical (The Most Happy Fella), and owns a chunk of the Saturday Review. His collection of modern art contains Dubuffet, Braque, Leger, Gris, Pollock, Arp and Kline, is valued at more than...
...more have been started in the first nine months of this year. Last year the nation's profit-sharing plans set aside from corporate earnings an estimated $2 billion for 5,500,000 Americans. Some companies pay the workers' chunk of profit in cash, but the majority now invest each employee's share and pay off only when he leaves the company. These deferred payments are taxable as capital income, at a top of 25%-which is the main reason that the number of such plans has jumped from 9,000 in 1955 to more than...
...walls whirl satisfactorily for a few pages when Atracta, having been fired for nonfeasance of breakfast, goes to law against her former employer and for a wonderful moment seems likely to be granted a large chunk of his estate in judgment. But the whirling begins too late and stops too soon. By this time the reader has begun to suspect that, soberly observed, Irish cuteness can be annoying...
...decades of American life. "The United States in this century is what I know," he explained not long ago, "the way people talked and thought and felt. I want to get it all down while I can." In The Hat on the Bed, he has got down an impressive chunk...
...type-cast boulevardier and self-styled arbiter of sartorial elegance, the Pittsburgh-born son of an immigrant hotel manager, who became king of the silver screen's lounge lizards with A Woman of Paris in 1923, at his peak earned $200,000 a year and spent a good chunk of it replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained his dandy image with such outfits...