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...show business ended in Pittsburgh, and John Ringling North, hereditary boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, pronounced an epitaph: "The tented circus as it now exists is a thing of the past." Last of the surviving big-time big tops, Ringling struck its huge tent for the last time, packed up to limp back to winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla., though the season was but half over. The big show's ailments: television, labor troubles, miserable weather this year, and soaring costs. Starting next April, North added bravely, the circus will sally forth again and play...
Five years ago Manhattan's Rupert T. Zickl, 59, went into Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. as a management consultant to help get its business squared away. Consultant Zickl, now a vice president of Bartram Bros. Corp., a director of V-C and owner of 17,500 shares of common stock, soon decided what was wrong with the $33 million fertilizer and chemical company. It was the management. Last week, by a vote of almost 2 to 1 at a special meeting in Richmond, Va., Zickl's independent stockholders' group ousted President Joseph A. Howell and five other...
Some blame the fusillade on the "lively" ball, a contention disputed by Ball-makers A. G. Spalding & Bros., which has ordered a resiliency test to settle the matter once and for all. Craftier amateur physicists attribute the fence-busting to the fact that sluggers have shifted from the 52-oz. sledge hammer Babe Ruth once wielded to lighter. 30-to 32-oz. bats that whip the ball like a golf driver. Last week Dave Grote, National League pressagent who has been thinking about it. offered still another theory: today's hitters hit more homers because they are bigger, stronger...
...never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway's Word," hit Page One of Havana's big (circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder man, a cameraman and a pressagent. Soon, Papa was set up in his favorite local bistro, La Terraza Café, on the harbor of Cojimar, a fishing village near Havana. With him sat grizzled Miguel Ramirez, 68, named...
...management will consolidate sales organizations and let Life Savers (which also makes Pine Bros.' cough drops) take over Beech-Nut's chewing-gum business. Noble plans other economies. For example, Beech-Nut, which started out making hickory-cured ham in Canajoharie, N.Y. 65 years ago, has had an increasingly tough job competing in food lines with such giants as General Foods, Standard Brands and H. J. Heinz, could branch into higher-profit products. Bubbled Noble last week: "This will be one last fling...