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Board-Room Battlefield. By installing himself as chairman of the executive committee, and his protégé Karr as president, Landa thought he had assured himself of control of Fairbanks Whitney. But before long, the new board of directors began raising a hue and cry about mismanagement. Last May, after a 1961 loss of $83,600 on sales of $141 million, Landa resigned as an officer of the company. Subsequently, a score of lesser Fairbanks executives scurried off, and those who remained behind were so absorbed in boardroom battles that no one was left to mind the store...
...years have tangled their hair until it swelled out to blimp proportions or plastered it down on their skulls as if it were Saran Wrap. Now hair is headed in the only remaining direction: up, up, up. Last week Saks Fifth Avenue Hair Stylist Adrian, the personally trained protége of Saks's famed Antoine, offered the U.S. the look that topped this summer's Paris collections-swirling, soaring swatches of hair that take off into the sky like the aftermath of atomic attack. Unlike wigs, which cover the whole head, the new hair pieces...
Karl Bodmer lived the remainder of his life in Barbizon, the artists' colony in the forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris, painting and teaching. One of his protégés was Jean François Millet, and as Millet's fame ascended, Bodmer's diminished. Finally, in need of money, Bodmer was forced to sell part of his collection of Millet drawings and paintings. He died in 1893. His legacy of art was bought from Knoedler this summer by the Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha, whose board chairman, John Merriam, is a trustee...
...Northrop, 68, argued similar ideas in his monumental The Meeting of East and West (1946), the work of a man equally at home in law, science, sociology, diplomacy and anthropology. Yale has rarely seen the likes of Northrop, a brilliant Wisconsinite who studied at Harvard and Cambridge, became a protégé of Alfred North Whitehead. The first master of Yale's Silliman College, Northrop quit that in 1947 for fulltime scholarship on both the law and philosophy faculties. He preferred immersion in such subjects as Mexican culture, quantum physics and relativity (he was an intimate of Einstein...
...taste for "business romance" and a hard-driving salesman with a rare knack for marketing culture. The intellectual is restless Mortimer J. Adler, 59, a martini-sipping scholastic iconoclast who first imposed himself on the national consciousness as a University of Chicago philosophy of law professor and a protégé of former Chicago Chancellor Robert Hutchins (who still holds the title of editor of the Great Books). In 1943 Adler scraped up a $60,000 grant to begin work on his Syntopticon index for the Great Books. The Syntopticon unabashedly categorizes the "102 Great Ideas of Western Civilization...