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...million from Ipana, Bufferin, Mum, Vitalis, etc.) and family-held Grove Laboratories, Inc. (estimated sales: $10 million from Fitch, Bromo Quinine, Four-Way Cold Tablets). In secret talks, Bristol-Myers is offering cash and stock, figures deal would add 25? to estimated 1957 per-share earnings...
Behind them, hard-driven cars were dropping out. The largest car in the race, Chevrolet's highly touted 4.6-liter "Super Sport" Corvette, lasted only 23 laps. Brakes locked, a fuel line broke, the ignition system went haywire-finally Drivers John Fitch and Piero Taruffi quit in despair. Before dark, 32 of the 65 starters were in the pits for good...
...have never bought a new car. They eat out a great deal-at lunch counters. Yet they are open-handed with friends needing help, and on occasion they do spend folding money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass windshield and windows replaced with clear glass, at a cost of $160. The cost did not matter where his eyewitnessing...
...N.DOSH Ocala, Fla. Mai de Merde Sir: Much as I am flattered by your reference to me as "the high priest" of something, even something called ''merde'' [Oct. 1|, I must put in my two cents' worth of protest. The gentleman quoted, Dean Fitch, may have gone to Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, but he went to it with a pair of tin ears and came out of it with a tin horn to blow. Cat is the most highly, intensely moral work that I have produced, and that is what gives it power...
...word that so preoccupies Dean Fitch is one of the most ambiguous, and in a way most honorable, words in the French language. In theatrical, military and other circles, merde is not a dirty word by any means, but a form of farewell and best wishes considered far more profound and more affectionate than other, more ordinary phrases. It has the special distinction of being called "the five-letter word." It is also called the mot de Cambronne because General Cam-bronne, when asked to surrender to the British at Waterloo, anticipated America's General McCauliffe by some...