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...showed himself a clever and cool reorganizer of corporations. His method is simple: he looks for faltering companies that have potential earning power and whose s tock is selling for less than the company's book value. He also likes to find a company with cash in the till to help pay the purchase cost. Evans never merges his company with others through stock swaps, instead buys the other company's stock and retires it, thus increasing the value of the purchasing company's stock. Per-share value of Porter stock increased from...
Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein. the show is redeemingly satirical, has turned into one of the most surprising phenomena in off-Broadway history. Running since last autumn to capacity audiences, Little Mary is sold out till the end of the month, plays to theater parties and matinees in an enlarged seating capacity (from 199 to 299 seats), has its own "original cast" album (Capitol...
...meet, to boss of the big Rapid-American Corp.. a widely diversified manufacturing outfit. Rapid Riklis, who will also be president of the $120 million McCrory Corp., plans to keep right on moving fast. Says he: "This is a strong company. We have $40 million cash in the till. We are going to expand and diversify...
...seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children off the streets, he ordered all colleges and universities in Ankara and Istanbul closed till fall...
...vain. Yet she still has an eye for a youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality-The Big Ward leaves the feeling that it is not about dying but about a life, however commonplace, that has been lived well...