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...York's Chemical, the country's seventh biggest bank, paid the defunct Security National company, which had been the 79th largest, $40 million for its assets. Explaining the speedy takeover, Chemical Chairman Donald C. Flatten said that Comptroller Smith "wanted it done quickly." Added Flatten: "The public interest was involved...
Matthews received his first money for writing sports when he was a high school junior: $10-15 a week for covering local games in the Burlington Daily News, a now-defunct William Loeb paper...
...foreign). Italian Princess Domietta Hercolani and French Photographer Marie-Laure de Decker are the only two who have been honored in the past by explicit mention in the press. The unpublished catalogue of alleged paramours, however, grows daily, and threatens to become the French equivalent of the now defunct White House "enemies list" as the sought-after billet of dubious distinction...
Though beer cans were only introduced in 1935-the first was a green-and-white container made by the American Can Co. for the now defunct Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark-experts estimate that as many as 12,000 domestic beer labels have been turned out since then. They include such obsolete brands as Cloud Nine, Simon Pure, Nu Deal, Wooden Shoe, Tube City and King Snedley...
...Dibbets and New York's Brice Marden. Rockburne's art is neither painting nor collage nor relief, but it has some of the qualities of all three-coupled with the kind of inventive intelligence one expects from one of Rauschenberg's contemporaries at the legendary, now defunct Black Mountain College. Starting with a rectangle of linen exactly 68 in. by 178 in., she folds, sizes and gessoes it until it becomes a geometrical plaque. "I had wanted," she writes, "to approach painting in a way that takes as given certain conventions while questioning others." The convention...