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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THOMAS L. ASHWORTH...
Hard-Headed. In Champaign, Ill., John L. Franklin had given up trying to raise asparagus after three years, built an asphalt drive across the patch, this spring discovered sprouts cracking through the pavement...
...banker, Berman was left homeless at 18 by the Russian Revolution. Settling in Paris, he was enchanted by the "Blue Period" paintings of another alien, Picasso, 18 years older than Berman. By that time, restless "Papa" Picasso was gaining notoriety as a cubist; but Berman, along with his brother Léonid, and his friends Tchelitchew and Bérard, thought cubism something to keep clear of. Their idea was to go on from where Picasso's Blue Period left off-to paint, in a traditional way, the cracked shells of European civilization. They were the "Neo-Romantics...
Said an Eversharp bigwig: "Dealers are killing us, screaming and tearing us apart for more ball-point pens." That was just eleven months ago. Last week it looked as if Eversharp had gotten another kind of tearing-apart. Board Chairman Martin L. Straus reported that his company (which had had to borrow $3,000,000 to carry it through) had closed its fiscal year with a $3,416,985.23 deficit. The trouble: ball pens...
...Open. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. showed other steelmakers what they could do about the steel grey market. J. & L. filed suits against two steel brokers (it asked $100,000 damages). The charge: the brokers said they had an "in" with J. & L. and could get 7,500 tons a month for the Ford Motor Co. at $75 a ton (the mill price was then $36). In Brooklyn, a federal grand jury indicted roly-polyIsadore Ginsberg, 52, and his son Maurice. (Ginsberg was scored as a "vicious grey marketeer" by a congressional committee probing the grey market in building materials, TIME...