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...scenery by Robert Randolph seems to have come straight out of the comic books. Metropolis's skyline is faultless. The Daily Planet, Clark Kent's apartment, City Hall, and scores of other familiar landmarks move effortlessly on and off the stage. Unfortunately, Superman himself is another matter. The wire he dangles from looks like a cable thick enough to hold the Queen Mary. And the illusion of flying is hardly enforced if you sit at the side and see Holiday waiting high up in the wings for each of his entrances...
Above all, the publishers are proud of putting out newspapers in the nation's largest city and reluctant to see them disappear. They want to hang on to their personal platform in New York. One story has it that William Randolph Hearst Jr. has been holding up negotiations by demanding that the new paper run his personal column. "Oddly enough," says a top executive involved in the negotiations, "the biggest obstacle to merger is the personalities and pride of the very top men. It's a question of who wants to give...
Adams has three main residential sections-Randolph, C-Entry and Westmorly. The Randolph courtyard looks dandy in the rain especially when seen to the rhythmic accompaniment of the heating pipes. Randolph's marble sinks add a touch of gentility, except when they fall apart as they occasionally do. For those who admire elegance gone to seed, Randolph is the place to live...
...Homestake mine was discovered in 1876 by a prospector named Moses Manuel. The following year he sold the claim for $70,000 to a San Francisco syndicate headed by George Hearst, father of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who was later to use the family's Homestake fortune in building his newspaper empire. Today it is run by Chairman Donald McLaughlin, 74, former head of Harvard's geology department, and by John K. Gustafson, 59, president, chief executive officer-and once one of McLaughlin's students...
...Studebaker began nearly a month ago, when the would-be buyer came to Lehman Partner Frank Manheim, who is also a director of Studebaker. Assured that the buyer had no intention of shaking up Studebaker's management, Manheim arranged a convivial day in New York with Studebaker Chairman Randolph H. Guthrie and President Byers Burlingame...