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Quartered in a Tudor-style stone mansion rising improbably above surrounding frame houses and tree-lined streets, the foundation was established by the late Mabel Wagnalls Jones in honor of her parents, Adam W. Wagnalls, a Lithopolis boy who co-founded the Funk & Wagnalls publishing firm in 1877, and his wife Anna. When Mabel Jones died in 1946, she bequeathed $2.5 million to provide scholarships for any and all Bloom Township youths who could complete four years at one of the two high schools in the area and wanted to go on to higher education. Today the fund...
Died. Moses Soyer, 74, Russian-born painter given largely to creating moody, sympathetic portraits in a traditional romantic-realistic style; in Manhattan. Soyer, whose twin brother Raphael and younger brother Isaac are also artists, came to the U.S. with his family when he was twelve. He received much of his early formal art training on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where rough-hewn street people served as his models. A diminutive man with large gentle eyes, Soyer was well known for his portrait of Fellow Artist Jack Levine and for The Green Room, a painting of three women...
...time still rare in Sweden. He also made changes at Volvo's big assembly plant near Göteborg, automating the heaviest jobs and establishing an internal placement agency to help people find more satisfying assignments. American workers will soon get a firsthand look at Gyllenhammar's style. Volvo has broken ground for a new assembly plant in Chesapeake, Va., the first automobile factory established in the U.S. by a foreign company since World War II. It is expected to begin production in late...
...carried out," he says, "but how can they have influence in such important executive decisions as where to put a new plant?" Although such views irritate militant Swedish unionists, Gyllenhammar's easy informality (he addresses workers with the familiar du, and they do likewise) and unpretentious style are the earmarks of a natural politician. Some Swedish pols have touted him as a potential leader of the liberal Folkpartiet...
...fact, and are cooked to order over an open fire. The cooks at the Sirloin Pit have a tendency to underdo the meat, so if you don't like your hamburgers on the rare side you better make a point of it in advance. Service is cafeteria style, and the lines get longish around lunch and dinner times so get there early...