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...part-time interviewers, mostly women between 30 and 50. The greater part of the revenue comes from market research carried out for business firms or trade associations. Lately, Harris has been probing consumer attitudes toward a new instant coffee, mutual funds, a mouthwash and a brand of potato chips...
Golden Guano. The imagination and energy that rebuilt Grace flows from President J. Peter Grace Jr., 48, the barrel-chested grandson of William Russell Grace, who founded the company in 1854. Founder Grace, a scrawny, 22-year-old refugee from the Irish potato famine, began as a ship's chandler to the merchantmen who were flocking to Peru for cargoes of guano, the mineral-rich bird droppings used as fertilizer. With his profits as a chandler, he outfitted his own ships, established sugar plantations, and soon had created an intricate distribution network up and down the west coast...
Before he sits down to play a concert, Pianist John Browning follows a simple routine: he eats an early dinner (steak and baked potato), takes a short brisk walk to the concert hall, touches his fingers to his toes 25 times. The acrobatics, he explains, are to get the blood out of his stomach and into his hands, where it belongs. Over the years, the exercises have proved remarkably effective-at 28, Browning is one of the most gifted pianists of his generation. Last week, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Georg Solti, he reminded audiences just...
Martha Schlamme in Concert (M-G-M). In a voice fresh as a sea breeze, Viennese-born Singer Schlamme conducts a folk tour mostly of Europe, avoiding the more familiar stops. Among her wistful best: The Praeties They Are Small, about the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and that Weill-Brecht triumph of despair, Surabaya Johnny...
...enlightened" ruler and admirer of Prussia's Frederick the Great, who made his peasants plant potatoes to ensure food supplies for his armies, Catherine hoped potato cultivation would relieve Russian poverty. It had little effect...