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Frederick R. Kappel, LL.D., retired chairman of the board, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Spokesman for and exemplar of public and corporate conscience...
...hand, actively and openly supports 17 symphony orchestras, among numerous other projects, through a company fund. In Los Angeles, amounts ranging from $25,000 to $1,000,000 have been given to the Music Center and County Museum of Art by such companies as Rexall, Northrop, and Pacific Telephone & Telegraph. The Houston Symphony is supported by oil companies, but the gifts have not been Texas-size. Theater Atlanta, in Atlanta, Ga., does not credit business with its broad-base support, but can count on getting about $150,000 from businessmen...
Such grooming, combined with care ful selection, has paid off. H.I., which depends on word-of-mouth advertising, is swamped with requests from businessmen and corporations. The London Dai ly hostesses," Telegraph the has German called them magazine Stern "mostest referred to them as der scharmanteste Kundendienst der Welt. And San Francisco Economic Consultant Baldhard G. Falk wrote back that his hostess was "not only an exceptionally charming person of impeccable taste. Most surprisingly, she happens to be the first lady driver with whom I was not afraid, and this means a lot, considering Paris traffic...
...some problems. Under a 1958 federal antitrust ruling, the company must divest itself of enough of its banana operations to create a new, competing company by 1971. That only dramatizes the company's overreliance on a single commodity; despite its other interests (including Revere Sugar, Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.), bananas still account for 65% of its business. Consequently, United Fruit last year acquired the J. Hungerford Smith Co. (manufacturer of soda-fountain syrups) and the A & W root beer-stand system, only last month bought up the Baskin-Robbins chain of franchised ice cream parlors. All this, management hopes...
...correspondent, Telegraph Operator Mamata proved irrepressible. When Dame asked him if he would like to see cruise ships call regularly, he almost bubbled over...