Tattle tales.

• Position: Jerry Schleuning

* The short happy life: Less than a year after Jerry Schleuning opened Hemingway's Downtown, he had to change the Greensboro bar's name. The novelist's heirs sued him, alleging trademark infringement.

* Keeping tabs: Some wags known to frequent the place suggested he dub it The Sum Also Rises or For Whom the Bill Tolls.

* Blood, sweat and beers: Schleuning settled on Churchill's. After all, it was Sir Winston who once observed: "One does not leave a convivial party before closing time."

* Rich colors: An Asheville woman trying to get $100 for an old painting of children playing ball on a frozen river turned to a local auction house for advice. On a hunch, the owner contacted Christie's. The New York auction house sold the 1660 canvas by Dutch artist Jan Havicksz Steen for $396,800.

* Doing his part: Critics fault nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's profits, up 7.5% to $167.6 million in 2005. Don't blame CEO Bob Greczyn. His compensation soared nearly 14% to about $2.5 million.

* What a lift: After licking us on the factory floor, foreign competition is whipping us in elevators. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was the first non-U.S. school to enter the Wake Forest MBA Elevator Competition--wherein students pitch business plans to venture capitalists during a two-minute ride between floors--and the first to...