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...Alleghany, which he regards as a sort of "corporate Marine Corps." Son of a Portland, Me., chiropodist, Ireland himself was a genuine World War II hero in the Marines, which he joined after finishing Bowdoin. At 30, he joined the mercurial Robert Young at Alleghany as its $7,500-a-year secretary and counsel. Within three years, as Young and Partner Kirby immersed themselves in the long proxy battle that won them control of the Central from the Vanderbilt family, Ireland was running the store singlehanded...
...interest in its South American routes, Braniff has just introduced such gourmet dishes as Cebiche Peruano de Pescado (raw fish steeped in lemon juice) and Arroz con Pato Chifa (marinated duckling in soy sauce with date, rice and walnut dressing) even aboard domestic flights. Reinforcing its $2,000,000-a-year take-the-wife-along campaign, United has been spending its own money to promote the availability of reduced rates for couples at the Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains and the Hertz and Avis rent-a-car companies...
...sometime hairdresser and lifeguard, promised that if elected he would spend his first week in City Hall in the nude. Restaurateur Robert le Bugle campaigned as the candidate for "peace, love, happiness." Two candidates used nicknames in their listings on the official ballot for the powerful, $38,365-a-year office...
Shrewd Tricks. Brooklyn-reared Rosenthal showed his talent for making money soon after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business ('56) and landed a $4,000-a-year job at the prestigious investment-banking house of Lehman Bros. In four years of shrewd stock trading ("I used every trick"), he managed to turn his own $2,500 nest egg into nearly $1,000,000. Then he launched out as an underwriter...
...standing apart from any specific church. Both ex-priests intend to follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis is now a $16,000-a-year Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada...