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...Mattress-Sized Popsicles. In turning art into a supermarket display, artists are reacting violently against the grandiloquent gestures of yesterday's abstract expressionists, whose work often looked like a square inch of Constable blown up to jumbo size. As the life went out of such abstract handwriting on walls, artists fell back on the visible world. In their embrace of reality, they state that art is no longer that which only looks like...
...which he dropped out of sight, suddenly reappeared last March as a Chicago cab driver and explained that he was attempting to "begin from the beginning" after years of alcoholism; of cancer of the pancreas, shortly after accepting a comeback position as administrative assistant to West Virginia Manufacturer (National Mattress Co.) James F. Edwards; in Barrington...
...spending, vacillating management and a reluctance to diversify were taking a heavy toll. Singer, who tried his hand briefly as a guard for a profession al basketball team after dropping out of William and Mary in 1936, had just completed four years as president of Chicago's mattress-making Sealy Inc., where he boosted annual sales from $56 million to $81 million. As he saw it, Scripto's problem was divided into two parts. First he concentrated on management, reshaped divisions, reshuffled executives, created several new high-level posts and took over personal responsibility for the company...
Tragedy of Christiane. Somebody was sure to get hurt by such a monomania, and somebody did. On his return from Italy, Goethe took up with a factory girl named Christiane Vulpius, a charming young thing of 23 who, as he once remarked, "made the mattress shake." To Goethe, the affair was a convenience; to Christiane, it was a tragedy. The court of Weimar called her "Goethe's pig," and he did not allow her to share his table when company was present. As the years passed, Christiane took to drink and ran to fat. After 20 years...
Carbide makes more than a thousand varieties of plastic (for women's coats, artificial wigs, handbags and baby bottles), last year acquired the Englander Co., a mattress maker, to spread sales of urethane foam. Its Linde division makes synthetic sapphires for scientific use with laser and maser beams, but has a profitable sideline in women's jewelry. In fact, though Carbide is primarily a supplier to other industries, it now counts about 10% of its sales in direct consumer products. Its longtime line of Eveready batteries includes 450 shapes and sizes, and its Prestone trademark...