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...terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
...rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress since removal of a chest cancer last summer. His prognosis will be reported to him soon...
Skipped Dividend. As a result of these trials, United Fruit last summer skipped its quarterly dividend for the first time in the 20th century. The appalled board of directors called in Outsider Sunderland, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), to be top banana...
Sunderland took over some massive headaches apart from sinking profits. Among them: Fidel Castro's confiscation of 272,472 acres of United Fruit sugar and cattle lands in Cuba; a 1958 anti-trust consent decree requiring United Fruit, by 1970, to divest itself of roughly one-third of its banana import business...
...President Sunderland, 53, is brimful of plans for restoring United Fruit's oldtime profits. Above all, Sunderland wants to make the company less dependent on bananas. It might diversify by raising more cattle, producing more palm oil, manufacturing soap and other palm-oil products. Most important, perhaps, United Fruit last year acquired a 123,000-acre oil concession in Colombia, and Oilman Sunderland is keenly interested in exploring for oil elsewhere in tropical America, hoping that black gold will pay when green gold does...