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...rosy were things down on the farm, in Orville's view, that he even began to feel perky about his own job, long the bitterest plum in the U.S. Cabinet. Said he in a recent speech at West Point, noting that he would soon begin his fifth year as Secretary: "That tenure, of course, is not a record; yet you don't exactly find five-year Secretaries of Agriculture hanging from trees." Peasants. Perhaps not, but last week the president of the U.S.'s biggest farmer organization, the 1,647,455-member American Farm Bureau Federation...
...business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar ($44 a lb.), Stilton cheese, smoked Scotch salmon and pate de foie gras en croute, flown from Strasbourg. Almost every order includes that centerpiece of British Christmas, Fortnum's plum pudding, 70,000 of which will be sold in London or mailed around the world this year...
...other hand, family firms have some congenital weaknesses, and Wall Street has tended to play these up in its constant importuning of such businesses to go public. Among them: the problem of signing up and holding able executives who know that the sweetest plum is often reserved for the boss's son. Perhaps the worst fate that can befall a family-owned company is to have at its head a grandpa who thinks that the old ways are still the best...
...banisters, arranges all sorts of tidy miracles, and even whisks her charges off to one of Disney's cloyingly clever never lands where the cartoon fauna come swiftly to heel. Although she pokes her pretty fingers into a world of sticky sweetness, she almost invariably pulls out a plum. All speeches and cream, with a voice like polished crystal, she seems the very image of a prim young governess who might spend her free Tuesdays skittering...
...Author Arthur Lewis, a onetime newsman who wrote a lively 1963 biography of Millionairess Hetty Green, The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, the story of the Molly Maguires was clearly a labor of love. Lewis comes from Mahanoy City in the heart of the coal fields, where the old wounds are still raw. He notes approvingly that all condemned Molly Maguires died gamely and with style. Two carried red roses to the scaffold. Another joked cheerfully as his hair was cut just before his execution: "Make it good, Al," he told the barber, "or you're liable...