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...candy machines and lollipops, and he portrays them so lushly that the viewer's mouth is bound to water. Last week, as his first Manhattan show closed at the Allan Stone Gallery, there was ample evidence that he had a number of connoisseurs drooling as sympathetically over the slice-of-cake school of art as literary critics once took to the slice-of-life. Among those who snapped up Thiebaud's canvases: Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. Collector James Thrall Soby, Architect Philip Johnson...
This would still have been a profitable slice if United Fruit had not been saddled with costs that its competitors did not have to contend with. Since its founding in 1899. United Fruit had built a welfare system for its Latin American workers that included 188 schools and 16 hospitals, cost $4,000,000 a year to run. Unlike its latter-day competitors, who buy their bananas from independent producers. United Fruit also had vast fixed investments in banana lands, workers' housing and rail lines to haul the fruit. Between 1957 and 1960, as the company's sales...
...begin or end wherever he wants, play back-to-front, or even turn the score upside down. Pianist David Tudor, leading performer of aleatory scores, is so accustomed to their weird notation systems that, according to Polish-born Composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. he can "play the raisins in a slice of fruitcake." The heaviest concentration of aleatory composers is in Germany, where-in addition to Stockhausen-South Korean Composer Nam June Paik (Homage to John Cage), and the German Hans Otte (Tropism I, II) and Austrian Friedrich Cerha (Movements) all preach the gospel of chance. France has Greek-born Composer...
...chunky Abe Sachar, 63, found his ailment matched by Jews across the country. Brandeis was too new to have alumni, but generous gifts flowed in from "foster alumni." They ranged from Crooner Eddie Fisher, who set up two music scholarships, to Broadway Producer David Merrick, who gave Brandeis a slice of Gypsy. Today Brandeis is a $24 million complex of more than 50 handsome buildings, including a 750,000-volume library and three ultramodern chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...made compacts, which captured a record 38.4% of the auto market last August, hold only a 33% slice of it so far this year. Meantime, overall sales of small foreign cars, with which the Cardinal would directly compete, have shrunk to only 3.9% of the market-and in this area the dominant position is held by Volkswagen, which Ford regards as an uncommonly difficult competitor to dislodge. Beyond this, Ford fears that the Cardinal might make many of its sales at the expense of the Falcon, just as the Falcon ate into the Galaxie's sales...