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...tigers-you men know which ones you are." Kellogg's tigers are puffing vim into breakfast food on the fronts of cereal boxes. Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co. of Fort Worth advertises its campus slacks by picturing them worn by a tiger, and another manufacturer of slacks, Thomson Co. of New York, shows a tiger skin with a girl's head. Fabergé has added a "Tigress" nail polish and lipstick to its "Tigress" perfume, which is advertised with a tiger-stripe background...
...Salisbury Daily News, owned by British Newspaper Tycoon Lord Thomson of Fleet, was banned last week for supporting African aspirations, despite a protest demonstration by 100 white and non-white students before the Parliament building. The Salisbury suburb of Highfield, where rival African parties have been feuding violently for months, was put in a state of emergency and sealed off by soldiers and police...
...Dubuque by riverboat in 1843 bringing a grand piano with them. The creative arts have played a central role at the college ever since. The girls are bored with traditional music, preferring to hear concerts by Jazzman Dave Brubeck, or to put on their own performances of Virgil Thomson's Medea or Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. Bold, colorful abstract painting, sculpture, ceramics and mosaics by students and faculty are everywhere on campus, reflecting Demers' concept that art "is the flesh of every aspect of life." In drama as in the fine arts, the results...
...typically remarkable deal, Rayne bought a 5,000-acre plot in Scotland for $2,000,000, then sold off 82 acres of it for $1,500,000. Recently he bought the controlling shares in Britain's Hazell Sun printing company from Press Lords Cecil King and Roy Thomson, promptly merged with a competitor to produce Britain's biggest printing firm and a $5,600,000 profit for himself...
...imitation of Thomson continues. Even the popular giants have taken note of the success of Thomson's appeal to the aspiring new middle class-and of the waning marketability of their own gaudy wares. The News of the World, down 2,000,000 circulation in a decade, has dropped much of its lurid crime-and-sex reporting in favor of a more serious and cultural approach. Max Aitken, Beaverbrook's son and heir, is fabricating a Thomsonlike appendage for the Sunday Express...