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...Meta-Mold Aluminum Co. of Cedarburg, Wis. is a corporation with an artistic soul. Its board chairman, Otto Spaeth, 57, is not only a shrewd and successful businessman but also a noted art patron and collector. In 1952, when Meta-Mold decided to build a new administration building, Sculptor Alexander Calder was called in to help design the lobby for a mobile that Calder named the "Otto-mobile" after Board Chairman Spaeth. Last summer Meta-Mold tried another experiment. It put on a show called "Art for Everyone-a purchase exhibition," in which 50 rented paintings and sculptures were offered...
None of Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville's first eight wives ever succeeded in smoking him out into court to fight a divorce brawl. Playboy Manville, 60, in escaping his previous marriages, barely dented his $20 million mad money. But shrewd Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, No. 9, enticed Tommy into a Manhattan court last week. Anita, 31, wanted a fatter payoff in her separation agreement: $1,250 a week instead of the piddling $1,000 a month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives...
...Ambassador-Extraordinary Jim Calan, an oil tycoon who has come to London to drive a hard bargain with British diplomats. Shrewd, tough, likable, religious, Jim would have married Katie O'Higgins had she not refused to become a mere...
Interviewed in Paris by the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, Author-Artist Ludwig (Father, Dear Father) Bemelmans told about his shrewd idea for luring patrons to a bar he has just opened on the He de la Cite. His plot: "It is my intention to plant some homing pigeons at the [square] in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I''II clip their wings so they can't fly, but will have to walk home. When all the tourists who come to see the cathedral and feed the pigeons start following my birds...
...cooking pot begins to stink, it's time to put the lid on." That was the advice the influential Tokyo Shimbun recently flung at Premier Shigeru Yoshida, 75. A government corruption scandal of Teapot Dome proportions threatened to overturn Yoshida's conservative coalition government. Everyone wondered whether shrewd, durable Premier Yoshida would be able to meet this challenge...