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Intricate Jumble. Kline's early Greenwich Village scenes of the late 1930s and early 1940s were sturdily realistic. At the time, he was decorating the walls of the Bleecker Street Tavern with $5 murals, to make ends meet. His break into abstraction was sudden and dramatic. For years, he had been making increasingly simplified sketches; as an art student in London, he had also collected Japanese prints. One day in 1949, he was visiting a friend who had a Balopticon projector; they enlarged several Kline sketches on the wall. The blown-up image wrenched the drawings...
...spirited executive meetings, few companies can match New England's innkeeping Dunfey group. Twice a month in a second-floor room of Lamie's Tavern, the only place in Hampton, N.H. with a liquor license, gathers the company's top management team: Board Chairman Catherine Dunfey, 73, and Sons John, 44, president of the family firm, Gerald, 32, Walter, 36, Robert, 40, and William, 42. With a portfolio of some 30 subsidiaries in such varied fields as real estate, insurance, and turkey farming to consider, the agenda often runs right through lunch, dinner and a midnight snack...
...have run their course, most of the family's decisions are unanimous. And, says Vice President Bob Dunfey, "When there have been mistakes, no one says 'I told you so.' " One reason may be that there have been few mistakes. Since they acquired Lamie's Tavern, their first acquisition, in 1954, Ma Dunfey and her boys have increased sales from $500,000 to $10 million. Along the way, they have spread a string of nine motor inns and hotels through five New England states, grown from a mom-and-sons outfit to a company employing nearly...
...their own, and four sisters all became nuns) first set up business in the resort town of Hampton Beach. Beginning with a single hot-dog stand, the boys wheeled and dealt themselves in and out of restaurants, real estate and a bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland Hotel in Portland, Me., New England's third biggest hotel, to a $3,850,000 franchised Howard Johnson Motor Lodge now abuilding directly over the Massachusetts Turnpike...
...more than 60,000 Vietnamese living in France, only 700 actively support Hanoi, and only 53 signed recently circulated documents affirming their support of the North and of the National Liberation Front. Of the 150 Vietnamese restaurants in Paris, only five are Communist-run, most notably the Tavern of the Green Dragon and Uncle Ho's, a student hangout...