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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chesler constructed General Development on another corporate shell: Detroit's Chemical Research Co. He bought in cheaply, helped steer the company into Florida real estate, in mid-1957 picked up another 520,000 shares at $7.15 each, and went to work to expand the company. General's earnings rose from $2.1 million in 1957 to $6.6 million in 1958, or $2.80 a share. Yet this is not cash on hand. When General sells an $895 lot for $10 down and $10 a month, it counts the full profit on the sale as current profit, even though it will...
Mark Twain once remarked that he especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last...
...keep pace with the times, the Dining Hall Department is likewise "exploring the possibility of redesigning other House dining areas." Plans have been tentatively drawn for Eliot House, and other studies will commence soon. The Central Kitchen itself will not expand in the near future, since the ninth and tenth Houses will have independent kitchens, but it may be partially reconstructed...
...Midwest Democratic chieftains in Milwaukee. (Top aide Ted Sorensen and brother Robert Kennedy† showed up.) While the conference accomplished little, it underscored the fact that Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Missouri's Stuart Symington are in the favor of Midwest politicians. Both are working hard to expand the Midwest political base and head off the unchallenged vote preference for Kennedy...
...third aspect of the project, the PBH Tutoring Committee initiated a program for tutoring juvenile delinquents after receiving three referrals from the Cambridge County Court Clinic. Rubenstein expects that the program will expand in the future...