Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norton Simon, the California millionaire who built an empire out of tomato paste, not only collects companies (among the many: Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry and Wheeling Steel) but also shuffles them and their management like so many cards. Last week he was shuffling for all he was worth. First, he announced that he was relinquishing the post of board chairman of Wheeling Steel, which he has held since Hunt Foods acquired a major interest in the West Virginia steel firm in 1964. Next, in an unrelated move, he arranged the appointment of Colgate-Palmolive Executive Vice President David...
...Mahoney appointment is the kind of creativity that Simon enjoys. Canada Dry has long been run by Roy W. Moore, 75, as chairman, and Moore's son, Roy Jr., 47, as president and chief executive. Both fought Simon vigorously two years ago when he bought a block of stock and first sought a seat on the board of directors. But the Moores were open to the criticism that Canada Dry, with a market in both soft drinks and whisky and sales of $171 million annually, has failed to live up to its marketing possibilities in spite of a record...
...Dutch masters that broke all attendance records at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. The exhibition opens this week in the Toledo Museum of Art and eventually goes on to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. It has nine Rembrandts, including Norton Simon's Titus. Even against such competition, the seven Halses emerge as the hit of the show...
David Rockwood's "Simon of Rhodesia" is rambling, exuberant, and fun. If there's more to it than meets the eye, I don't think we should look for it: if mention of a "blue guitar" and a Prufrock spoof (substituting "Henry Miller-O" for "Michelangelo") are supposed to plunge us into thoughts of Stevens and Eliot, the poem does not justify its allusions. But taken lightly it's pleasant, and occasionally striking, as when a guitarist "plucked a flatted fifth as one might pluck the eyeball of a kitten...
...Simon accepted the Hills's abduction as fantasy. John Fuller, however, believes in UFOs. He heard about the Hills in 1965 when he was working on his first flying-saucer book, Incident at Exeter (TIME, Sept. 2). From Simon's tapes and from interviews with the Hills, he has stitched together an account that he himself wants to accept as earthshaking. Assuming that all this is true, he writes, "such an event would demand a re-examination of religion, politics, science and even literature." To say nothing of heads...