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...umbrellas, cobblestones and in the boulevards more realistically than did the later impressionists. Last week the museum unveiled a Rubens Holy Family, depicting Jesus and Mary with Joseph, the infant St. John the Baptist and his mother St. Elizabeth (see color overleaf). Its fiery red, electric blues and ripe flesh tones show why Renoir (represented in Chicago by 19 oils and four drawings) looked to Rubens for inspiration...
...girls at home and the boys overseas were equally lonely, equally sentimental," writes Simon. "The time was ripe for the singers, with their more personalized messages. In December 1946, almost a dozen years after Benny Goodman had blown the first signs of life into the big-band bubble, that bubble burst. Inside of a few weeks, eight of the nation's top bands broke up. The world that was once theirs now became the property of their most illustrious graduates-the singers...
...profitable, satrapy of Co-Founder Ernest Henderson. After Henderson's death two months ago, the chain passed to his son, Ernest Henderson III, 43, as president and chief executive, and longtime Henderson Financial Adviser Richard Boonisar, 60, as chairman. Along with the changeover came rumors that Sheraton was ripe for acquisition if the right offer came...
That philosophy prompted 26-year-old Lawrence Rosenthal to set up shop as a Manhattan investment banker. Six years later, at a ripe old 32, Rosenthal is a multimillionaire, and his L. M. Rosenthal & Co. has become a phenomenon in the clubby world of investment banking that is dominated by venerable firms led by partners who are often well into their 70s. The average age of Rosenthal's six top executives is 31, and the firm's floor trader at the New York Stock Exchange is a mere...
...almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways add little to the economy. A case in point: 48 manufacturers of electric blankets, pads and bed warmers produce 242 different models, and none of them makes much money. When the merger mood gets into full swing, those firms will be ripe...