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...Paris' Palais Galliera last week, Daumier earned back the 12 francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...
Mechanics & Executives. Far from trying to put God into the marketplace by sermons or commandments, indus trial missions seek to get Christian work ers, from assembly line mechanics, to corporate executives, to articulate the moral issues involved in their work lives. Founder of the movement is Episcopal Father Hugh C. White Jr. Inspired by England's Sheffield Industrial Mission, he quit a pastorate in the Detroit industrial suburb of Ypsilanti to spend three years learning what modern busi ness was all about. In 1956, with the encouragement of the Michigan Council of Churches, he set up the Detroit Industrial...
...Alert. Founder and president is O. F. (for Olbert Fearing) Lassiter, 47, who retired two years ago as an Air Force brigadier general after a 30-year military career that took him from National Guard private to Strategic Air Command division commander. Lassiter obtained financing from a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary, signed up a board of directors that includes former Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis E. Le-May and Actor Jimmy Stewart, a reserve one-star general. Lassiter's 41 pilots were largely recruited among SAC veterans and former pilots of the Special Air Mission squadron in Washington; three...
Like a Chameleon. It often seems that way. Durable Unilever has been a father figure in African enterprise since Lord Leverhulme, founder of the firm's British branch, in 1911 won a concession from Belgium's King Leopold II to develop a 1,875,000-acre plantation in the Congo. The company planted oil palms for its soap, later prospered by buying farm products from the Africans and selling household goods to them -pocketing a profit on both ends. Reaching out, U.A.C. also became the biggest merchandiser in the 14 former French colonies of Africa...
...fact that was signaled in advance by the peekaboo, fold-out invitations created by Stage Designer Rouben Ter-Aru-tunian, replacing the universally ordi nary engraved white cards. The rea son was that Amanda-darling, daughter of Mrs. William S. Paley, and Susan, bright offspring of MCA Founder Jules Stein, got a couple of dozen beautiful young people to show up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in "nude" fashions inspired by Shakespearean heroines and created for the occasion by U.S. and European designers...