Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William J. Abbott...
...semiconductor manufacturing. Then a third company heard rumors of the impending deal, made a hurried study and offered the firm $7.5 million for only a 50% interest. It was eagerly accepted. Amgen, a genetic-engineering company founded by a molecular biology professor from U.C.L.A. and a vice president from Abbott Laboratories near Chicago, raised an astonishing $19 million earlier this year. That was the third largest amount ever given to a venture firm. Although the initial risk and rewards of venture capital belong mostly to the small select club of moneymen, the eventual winner will be the entire U.S. economy...
...What happened?" asked Scott Meredith, who is both Mailer's and Abbott's literary agent. "Every conversation I had with Jack, we talked about the future. Everything was ahead of him." John Dockendorff, director of the halfway house, was "absolutely baffled how Jack got the knife and how he hid it." Abbott had been "cooperative" and had even appeared for one of the attendance checks after the murder, before vanishing into the streets...
Others glimpsed the handwriting on the prison walls. Erroll McDonald, Abbott's editor at Random House and one of his guides in the complexities of free life -how to order from a menu, where to buy toothpaste-noticed the ex-convict's tendency to "interpret indifference as rudeness." Novelist Jerzy Kosinski, who had had his own correspondence with Abbott since 1973, said, "Looking at him, I had the feeling there could be uncontrollable anger one moment and a very easy embrace the next." Finally, anyone who read his work noticed, as Kosinski did, that "he wrote in such...
Kosinski faults himself and Abbott's other literary friends. "We pretended he had always been a writer. It was a fraud. It was like the '60s, when we embraced the Black Panthers in that moment of radical chic without understanding their experience." There is another analogy from the 1960s, when Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. championed the cause of a literarily gifted convicted killer, Edgar Smith, and helped set him at liberty to attempt murder again. Years later, Buckley acknowledged in an article how easily conned and naive he had been. Mailer, whose writings attest...