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...Eastern ties. His father was a Boston lawyer who settled in dry New Mexico for his health. Hurd attended West Point for two years, quit because art interested him more than mathematics. He recalls that his father-apparently ignorant of the aborted West Point career of James McNeill Whistler-responded by saying, "You are an utter jackass...
...extensive world empire of 63 plants in 27 countries; Borden has 30 overseas plants, General Foods 23, Kellogg 19 and General Mills five. H. J. Heinz, General Foods and Kellogg have all opened plants in Japan. Green Giant is building a vegetable canning plant near Milan, and Libby, McNeill & Libby in July opened a new cannery at Vauvert in southern France. This week, to the distress of French poultrymen, a company jointly owned by Ralston Purina and France's Duquesne opens a large poultry processing plant in Brittany...
...conversations with aides and agents on either side of the Atlantic. He has been on the telephone a lot lately. Last year he made news by swimming against the flood of U.S. acquisitions in Europe to buy, with two partners, a 20% controlling interest in Chicago's Libby, McNeill & Libby food-packing firm. Last month, in a second such venture, Sindona took control, by stock purchases and proxies, of New Hampshire's Brown Co., a paper and plywood maker that has suffered from industry slumps and takeover battles...
...Rise of the West, McNeill...
...Rise of the West, McNeill...