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...carpet- cleaning shop she managed. By the time he was ten years old, he was soliciting business over the phone. Five years later, in 1981, he bought some steam- cleaning equipment and set up shop in his family's garage. Unlike many entrepreneurs who give their companies names like AAAA Best, Minkow gave his firm a name that put it near the end of the telephone book. When the business boomed, he hired his parents, making his mother an office manager and putting his father into sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zzzz Best May Be ZZZZ | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...AAAA AAABAAA First Driving School

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Aaaa-eeyaa-eeyaa-eeoo! The nostalgic jungle roar echoed from a Marriott hotel in steamy nether Los Angeles last week as four of 15 former screen Tarzans and three of 19 ex-Janes got together to celebrate the centenary of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth. The lung-busting bellow was uttered by beefy Johnny Weissmuller, now 71 and 250 lbs., who starred in twelve Tarzan movies opposite four Janes; he and Tarzan No. 13, Jock Mahoney, 56, got together to heft a shapely Rent-A-Jane in a rippling display of one-apemanship. How far did Tarzan and Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: ... And the Tarzan Cult | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Kwame Dan Walker '66, and Robert E. Wright '65 were named at-large members of the executive committee, and Thomas Atkins 2G was appointed editor in chief of the AAAA publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AAAA Elects | 5/21/1963 | See Source »

...African and Afro-American Association, despite its explicit racial discrimination, remains an open question. The moral objection to discrimination is not that it involves making distinctions between people, but that the racial distinctions involved are rationally indefensible and lead to social evil. The most relevant criterion in evaluating the AAAA would thus seem to be, not the legalistic implications of its membership clause, but the effect the group will have upon the concrete educational experience of an important number of undergraduates--whether it will, in fact, lead to social evil within the Harvard community. The Association's representatives have...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Afro - Americans | 5/14/1963 | See Source »

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