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Money & Desire. The man who bought Titus and brought it to the U.S., after a year of stalking it, is perhaps the only man in the world who could and would execute such a coup. As head of California's rapidly expanding Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., Norton Winfred Simon is the ruler of a business complex that embraces two dozen companies in fields as diverse as publishing and steel. A comfortable millionaire?about $100 million at latest count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling...
...Simons go out rarely, usually avoid the cocktail-party circuit. They enjoy visits from their two sons, Donald, 28, a University of Southern California graduate student, and Robert, 26, head of Hunt's vegetable procurement division, and their three grandchildren. They travel frequently, last week returned from a ten-day trip to Florence and Rome, where they soaked up art and opera and ate canelloni and Florentine steaks. At home, they prefer to entertain in small groups, mostly drawn from art and education circles, that make for lively conversation. Jean Fowles and her husband Edward at tended one meal...
...collection. As for that other collection, the string of companies that Simon has bought into, there is as yet no master plan. Simon says that an objective "is being worked out. It is going to be something complex. We are struggling with the definition." Translated, that means that Hunt is going to keep on growing, that Norton Simon will continue to cast his acquisitive eye on companies as well as on paintings?and that what comes of it all will be, in its own way, as rare and distinctive in the world of business as a Titus...
...Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents...
Doebele will assist Dean Jose Luis Sert in organizing the school's fund drive, expected to begin next fall. The Design School hopes to sell Robinson and Hunt Halls, its present home, to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and to construct its own building...