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Manhattan's La Cuisiniere has noticed a dramatic increase in sales of charlotte molds and copper beating bowls (at $18 to $27 each); the Bridge Co. now finds that its bestsellers are $10.95 cast-aluminum omelet pans used on Julia's show, followed closely by $9.95 paella pans and $50 butcher's blocks. And in Pittsburgh, when she beat egg whites with a wire whisk, her followers bought out every whisk in town...
...Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet, and toured the environs atop a "cherry picker" used to replace street lights. Funny...
...thick tightrope, rubbernecks flocked across the continent to gawk. For two summers, while spectators placed bets on his fate (and sometimes cut his supporting cables to improve the odds), the dapper Frenchman sashayed back and forth on his rope, drinking champagne (he once cooked an omelet 150 ft. above the falls), turning somersaults, pushing a wheelbarrow while riding a bicycle, even carrying his manager across on his back. Once Blondin stumped across on stilts, a display of bravado that won him $400 from the future King Edward...
Dividing an Omelet. Still angry over the 1961 maneuver, the Justice Department is not in a compromising mood, intends to press for a split-up. "Some persons seem to feel that you can't unscramble an omelet," says William H. Orrick Jr., head of Justice's antitrust division. "You can't. But you can divide it into two parts." Justice plans to ask the court to require the bank to divide its accounts, loans, branches and personnel into two independent banks, one about twice the size of the other-the ratio between Manufacturers and Hanover...
Even splitting the omelet poses sticky problems. In the 31 years since merger, Hanover's organizational structure has been completely integrated with Manufacturers, and many former Hanover executives are no longer among the firm's 10,000 employees. Manufacturers Hanover has current assets of $7 billion, $2 billion more than the combined assets of the parent banks, has gained six new branches (total: 136) and thousands of new customers. To Justice, this simply reinforces a contention that the merger materially reduced bank competition in New York; for the bank, it raises the question of how it can possibly...