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Planned for the corner of Mellon and Oxford Streets, the private structure will be 110 feet high, almost twice Cambridge's 65-foot limit, and must be approved by the zoning board. (A proposal before the Cambridge City Council would remove the height limit for the Harvard Square area, but require 100 per cent parking facilities...
...school-board election, but it is seldom meaningful in human terms. In a suburb, the chances are you know the man who is running for the school board, and you vote for or against him with more understanding." Says Don C. Peters, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon-Stuart Co. (construction) and chairman of the board of supervisors of suburban Pine Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about the search...
...water-colors and drawings, and 47 pieces of sculpture are works from 17 countries, ranging from the nightmarish quality of Francis Bacon's Study for Head of a Pope, lent by Beekman Cannon, '34, to Paul Gauguin's sunlit Landscape at Le Pouldu, lent by Paul Mellon, '29. France leads the list with 99 entries; next is the U.S. with 42. Most represented artist in the show is Picasso, with eleven pieces, followed by Degas with ten, Rodin with six, and Matisse. Cézanne, Monet and Vuillard with five each. The most represented U.S. artist...
...build his giant H. K. Porter Co., Thomas Mellon Evans has taken over some 40 smaller companies, molded them into a widely diversified, tightly run industrial complex (1959 sales: $225,956,904). Last year Evans shoved his way into Chicago's old and ailing Crane Co., the nation's fifth-ranking manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, and started out to put together a plumbing-fixture empire with Crane as a base and Michigan's Briggs Manufacturing Co. as a major part...
Unmoneyed Mellon. Tom Evans, a distant cousin of Pittsburgh's moneyed Mellons, has made a personal fortune on his own estimated at $80 million. After graduating from Yale in 1931, he got a start as a $100-a-month clerk in the office of William L. Mellon, then head of Gulf Oil Corp. Showing budding financial genius, Evans rented Gulf stock from Mellon at 3% interest, used the stock as collateral to borrow money to play the market. His profits he plowed back into Gulf stock, used his returns to buy into H. K. Porter, a faltering manufacturer...