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...Boston Museum of Fine Arts also had a taste for such things, and the Karo-liks and the museum soon formed one of the most remarkable partnerships in the history of art collecting. If the museum would accept them. Karolik said, he would find, buy and donate works of the neglected period. As Critic Brian O'Doherty has noted, "Mr. Karolik must have been the first collector anywhere to offer a museum a collection that didn't exist and who then went...
FOOD MERGER is in works between fast-growing Corn Products Refining Co. and Best Foods, Inc. to create grocery processor second only to General Foods Corp. (annual sales: $1 billion). Corn Products (Mazola salad oil, Karo syrups) grossed $495 million last year, while Best Foods (Nucoa margarine, Hellmann's mayonnaise) grossed $114 million...
...ARNOLD KARO Admiral...
...while working at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. At the institute, Reid did research for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss...
...King strode into the Safe way Store, ordered dried beans, evaporated milk, sugar, coffee, Karo syrup. The grocer asked for his ration book. "A ration book, hey?" The suspicious hermit reddened with anger. "I have money to pay for what I need. You have to sell it to me." Not so, retorted the grocer: the King must register. "I'll sign for nothing," shouted the King. "All the book I need is in my gun belt." He drew the pistol, tossed some bills on the counter, scooped up his supplies, backed...