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Something for the Pigeons. All the while. Sadakichi sharpened the talent for gratuitous insult that later so endeared him to his Hollywood buddies. When he met dapper Industrialist Henry Clay Frick, he told him to write his autobiography and call it The Tom Thumb of the Coke Ovens. Of some blueprints of Architect Stanford White he said: "To be improved upon only by pigeons, after the drawings become buildings." One figure escaped his misanthropic venom: Mary Baker Eddy. He called the founder of Christian Science "the greatest spiritual expression of the century," and was writing a verse drama about...
...Latin America, Senator Homer E. Capehart, chairman of the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee, last week added his influence. Milton Eisenhower had earlier toured Latin America and found a need for the U.S. to hold down tariffs, stockpile more raw materials and make more development loans. Industrialist Clarence Randall, reporting last January to President Eisenhower on foreign economic policy, had proposed limited tariff cuts that would help Latin American exporters...
...regard music as I do food," says New Orleans Industrialist (chemicals) Edward B. Benjamin. "I relish different types at different times." Last year he decided that there was not enough "tranquil" music in the world, so he established a $1,000 Benjamin Award to encourage more of it. Music Lover Benjamin's specifications: compositions would have to be: I) for full orchestra, 2) of not more than ten minutes' duration, 3) tranquil. Benjamin's further explanation: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans bring work home at night. Tranquil music is the kind that can be listened...
...palace, between ceremonies, Magloire puts aside fancy dress and operates as the kind of detail-cracking, eleven-hour-a-day executive that any topflight Detroit industrialist could understand. He rises in the dawn cacophony of his capital's unbelievably numerous roosters, and hops on an exercise machine. After a rubdown, he breakfasts in bathrobed comfort on fruit and cafe au lait. Then, in a suite filled with alabaster busts, stuffed pink cranes, Empire clocks and pictures of himself and other Haitian heroes, the President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from...
...government officials and businessmen were told exactly what presents to give at Farouk's wedding. Industrialist Ahmed Abboud gave a ?35,000 gold tea service...