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...list in 1953 was Industrial Brownhoist Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets...
...DREAM OF KINGS, by Davis Grubb (357 pp.; Scribner; $3.95). Abijah Hornbrook was just a Virginia ne'er-do-well who left his family to fend for themselves, but his eight-year-old daughter, Cathie, was sure that he would return some day a king. So was Tom, the orphan with whom she was raised. Tom had a vision of Abijah "high and lofty on a frothing mare ... a giant printed on the sky." Tom tells his own first-person story of how he grows to manhood in the Civil War South, thinking he hates Cathie, but really loving...
...Reached the Body. What was the cause of it all? Nobody is sure. "Frank was the first great bedroom singer of modern times," says a nightclub columnist. "He was the first singer to reach the-er-great body of American women." Frank disagrees. "I don't really think it was sex," he says, and many psychiatrists agree. "Mammary hyperesthesia," muttered one. Sinatra's voice, said another doctor, was in the early days "an authentic cry of starvation." Far from least, there was the late George Evans, Sinatra's pressagent, who more than any man helped to pull...
Once a week the President has break fast with Vice President Richard Nixon, for whose political judgment he has a high regard. The man who is closest to the President has no title in the Administration: he is Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University. Young er (55) brother Milton fills the President's need for a trusted confidant outside the Administration with whom he can discuss almost any issue or policy...
...laurels must go to Simon, who was in perfect voice, with ne'er a hint of a rough-edged tone. His diction, in four languages, was always impeccably clear. I was particularly impressed by his singing of the medieval Sainte Marie, Alonso de Mudarra's Triste estaba, and Oswald v. Wolkenstein's Der May. The last is one of the oldest descriptive pieces, wherein the calls of many birds are imitated at great speed, in the manner of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song...