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...began as head of Hunt Foods and Industries, the world's largest packer and distributor of tomato foodstuffs, and has since branched out into half a dozen businesses from Ohio Match Co. to McCall's magazine. He seeks controlling stock in other firms in hopes of improving them, and, says one museum curator, "in the same way he picks up a company that could be doing better, Simon makes a good painting more important by adding it to his collection." By hanging it in the company of centuries of masterworks, even Simon's Rembrandt gains character...
...anyone else." Republican Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. adds: "I'm struck by the number of people who don't have the vaguest notion of what Lodge stands for." Says Republican Tom McCall, who is running to succeed Appling: "This is the Year of the Green Tomato" -meaning that the "ripe tomatoes," Barry and Rocky, have been tasted by the electorate and found wanting...
...from Cat. His father and mother were tomato farmers on Cat Island in the Bahamas. Once or twice a year, they went to Florida in a small sailboat to sell their tomatoes, and on one of these trips their eighth child, Sidney, was born, thus becoming an American citizen by a fluke that turned out to be lucky. The tomato farm died in an agricultural disaster year. At 15, Sidney was coasting toward delinquency. His father, deciding that the boy's American citizenship might save him, sent him to live with a brother in Miami...
...Tokyo baseball stadium provide background for one tingling chase. In a city overcome by heat, the camera searches a line of chorus girls collapsed on a dressing-room floor, flesh glistening with sweat, each face a breathless distillation of despair. After a murder, a closeup of a splattered tomato-despite the obvious symbolism-suddenly, almost insidiously, conveys the whole meaning of horror and grief combined...
...another company), but his infusion of young ideas into the company has set it off on a steady rise ever since. Gibson shook up a whole roster of vice presidents, increased the authority of divisional managers, applied scientific research to marketing Libby's 300 products (best seller: tomato juice). He feels that the best place for Libby to regain its youth is in Western Europe, where rising living standards provide a growing market for canned goods. Libby will add a $5,000,000 cannery in the Rhône Valley this year to already operating processing plants in West...