ABSTRACT - Pfizer Inc says first-quarter earnings more than doubled, while profit dropped at Eli Lilly; Pfizer reports net income of $4.67 billion, up from $1.96 billion year ago; revenue increased 10 percent, to $8.53 billion; Eli Lilly's net income fell to $407 million from $629.2 million year earlier; sales rose 13 percent, to $2.89 billion from $2.56 billion (M) Pfizer said yesterday that first-quarter earnings more than doubled on the sale of businesses, while costs to cut jobs pulled down profit at Eli Lilly. Both reported increased sales of treatments for conditions from high cholesterol to schizophrenia.

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