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...years have brought changes to the game and the way it is covered. Drebinger regrets most of them, but philosophically. "When I first broke in," he says, "writers like Hughie Fullerton, Bill McGeehan and Will Wedge wrote much closer to the game than writers do now. They told the fans what was happening and why. They were full of the inside stuff. Now the young writers try to be sophisticated, blase. 'Hell,' they say, 'everybody knows what...
Hunt Foods recently gave a public library to Fullerton, Calif., where its cannery is located, and the Chase Manhattan Bank is helping to restore Wall Street's Federal Hall and a colonial town on Staten Island. President Bart Lytton of Lytton Savings & Loan Assoc. has commissioned a $60,000 work by Sculptor Henry Moore for Los Angeles' Art Museum Plaza...
...Barn. Some were for large land projects such as the design of 5,000 acres of residential and commercial development at California's Bishop Ranch; others involved simply the architectural design for individual buildings. (One of his best is the new headquarters of the Hunt Foods Co. at nearby Fullerton.) Currently under construction on Wilshire Boulevard is the Pereira-designed Los Angeles County Art Museum, biggest to be built in the U.S. since Washington's National Gallery in 1941. This $8,000,000 structure, financed through the efforts of Department Store Magnate Edward W. Carter, will feature three soaring pavilions...
Yale Seminar. Simon has often mystified the business community-and sometimes angered it-but his career has its own internal logic. He left the University of California before graduating to set up his own sheet metal business, used his profits to buy a bankrupt orange juice company in Fullerton, Calif. He sold it to an old-line private-label packer called Hunt Brothers, then quickly moved in on Hunt and took over. During the World War II food shortage, he made lasting enemies of many wholesalers and grocery chains by stopping Hunt's longtime private-label canning for them...
Process of Becoming. Simon operates from offices in Los Angeles and a William Pereira-designed administration building in Fullerton. He works seven days a week, surrounded both at home and in his office by perhaps the best private art collection in California-from Rubens and Rembrandt to Picasso and Hans Hofmann. He serves on the University of California board of regents, and takes his intellectuality seriously, avoiding such normal business fare as cocktail parties and public functions. He and his wife like to give small dinners, at which the conversation is never as lowly as a tomato and the latest...