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...hard," Warhol once complained. "The things I want to show are mechanical." So he had someone make 500 wooden boxes for him; someone else made silk screens of the designs on the cardboard cartons that hold the products of Del Monte, Brillo, H. J. Heinz, Campbell's, Mott's and Kellogg's. Warhol himself, with help, squeegeed the color onto the boxes, wrapped them in brown paper to be carted to the gallery, and planned their arrangement in towering tiers. Lest viewers think it's just another Saturday morning outside the local supermarket, he made their...
...With 686,152 shares, Sloan is General Motors' second largest private shareholder after Michigan Philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott (TIME, June 28). Sloan has contributed heavily to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (basic scientific research) and to the Sloan-Kettering Institute (cancer research...
...Dutch-born Protestant leader prefers to think of himself as simply "an international Christian worker." He has never been anything else. Thirty-eight years ago the American ecumenist John R. Mott picked Visser't Hooft out of the State University of Leyden and made him the secretary of the YMCA's World Alliance. Two years later Visser't Hooft became head of the World Student Christian Federation. When the 1937 Oxford Conferences of the Life and Work and Faith and Order Movements resulted in the establishment of a Provisional Committee to set up the World Council of Churches, Visser...
...determined dieter can whip up a filling meal from Duffy-Mott Co.'s new shelf of 60 low-calorie products, including maple syrup (9 calories per teaspoon, v. 50-55 for the real thing), spaghetti sauces (8, v. 20) and chicken à la king (96 per serving, v. 305). Taste, depending on the product, ranges from good to dreadful. Mott thins the fat off its meats, uses only white chicken meat instead of richer dark meat, says all this adds 10% to 12% to its costs. The products retail at a 1% to 200% premium, and sales are swelling...
...Mott's first wife committed suicide in 1924. His second wife died in 1928, six months after they were married. He divorced Wife No. 3, Dee Van Balkom Furey, after nine months of marriage in 1929, gave her more than $1,000,000 of G.M. stock. Mott married his present wife, Ruth Rawlings Mott...