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Relations between business and the press are often prickly, but they are seldom worse than those between Mobil Oil and the Wall Street Journal. In a story about the oil business last month, the paper gave short shrift to a piece of news that the company thought was important-the closing of a Mobil refinery in West Germany-and devoted a separate story to a report that Percy Pyne, the son-in-law of Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr., would benefit financially from the company's construction of a $300 million office tower in Chicago. As a result, Mobil...
...devoted literary artists seldom receive...
That will come as a surprise to many in the West, whose donations to Ethiopia's famine victims continue unabated. In the U.S., relief agencies have seldom, if ever, been busier. Oxfam America is receiving contributions at its Boston headquarters at the rate of about $1 million a month, and World Vision in California has raised $2.5 million in the past six weeks, including one check for $250,000. Canada announced a further government contribution of $5.6 million. The European Economic Community will send 55,000 metric tons of grain this month...
...bank customers are grousing about high fees, impersonal service or long teller lines. Wealthy depositors seldom experience any of those indignities. For them, banking has become more convenient and financially rewarding than ever before. At the Manufacturers Hanover headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in New York City, customers with a net worth of more than $ 1 million carry out their transactions in an inner sanctum with dark paneled walls and deep-green carpeting. At least two officers familiar with the individual's finances are on hand so that the customer can borrow $500,000 for, say, a vacation home...
...CHEEVER, we are told, always loved to tell stories. As an adolescent in the prestigious Thayer Academy, his teacher used to reward the class for their good behavior by having John tell them a story. Later, he told his own children so many legends about his life that they seldom knew what to believe. The fact is, John Cheever glided effortlessly into a world of fiction and, according to his daughter, he sometimes stayed exclusively in his imaginary surroundings for months. Suicidal drinking bouts, long talks with his canine companions, and a career steeped in fictional fantasy tell the story...