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Deep in his heart, every art collector yearns to pick up a painting for a few dollars, dust it off and discover it is really a long-lost old master. For one collector, the wish has come true. In Johannesburg, Businessman (tire-recapping) Maurice Hirsch poked around at a local auction sale and bought for $375 a painting he thought "looked good." Local collectors were doubtful, but Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection...
MIDGET Crosley cars, which went out of production in 1952, will soon be produced in Israel for the European market. General Tire & Rubber Co., which bought control of Crosley, has made a deal to give Crosley's equipment to Israel's Abena Investment & Development Co. in exchange for a half-interest in the Israeli company. Machinery will be moved from Marion, Ind. to Tel Aviv. Abena will use cheap (about $3 a day) labor to turn...
From shoeshine boys to industrial tycoons, Brazilians never tire of talking politics and coffee, and last week there was some zestful news about each. In Congress, the first impeachment proceedings in Brazilian history were under way against President Getulio Vargas. Acting under an obscure 1950 law allowing anyone to make official charges against the President, a small-time politico put before Congress allegations of assorted presidential wrongdoing. Opposition Congressmen mischievously forced the matter to the floor, and the debate...
...perfectly and unspeakably different from a mere machine." However, he says, "in all too many American corporations, management may be aware of this but, for some inexplicable reasons, devotes more concern to the machine than the man. It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
...Squeal Tire. An automobile tire that neither hums nor squeals on turns has been developed by the U.S. Rubber Co. The U.S. Royal 8 has an almost rectangular "footprint" that keeps an extra amount of rubber on the road, and its tread design is reversed, with the narrowest ribs at the outer edge. The tire, say U.S. Rubber officials, will also give 25% more mileage. Price: about...