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Nonetheless, Malcom Purcell McLean, one of the lesser known captains of American business, has just anted up $111 million to buy U.S. Lines, whose 36 vessels ply worldwide cargo routes. The seller was Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., the New Jersey conglomerate, which now has a cargo full of cash.
Center Brian Banks started it off with two short jump shots. Next, forwards Cyrus Booker and Gary Ackerman got in on the act by trading a pair of lay-ups. Then the guards anted up their share; Rich Bengel hit for a pair of shots from downtown and Glen Fine...
Hardly anybody wanted the grimy, torn portrait of an aged, slightly paunchy George Washington that for years had been hanging around New Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That...
The party offered much champagne, delectable finger food and an East Side address (rented for the occasion). A 3-ft-high hazelnut cake with pink icing had tilted to starboard in its box during shipping, but Hostess Shere Hite, author of the bestselling study of female sexuality, The Hite Report...
The project is being funded without a sou from a synagogue or a church. A straight commercial venture, it is backed by 18 wealthy businessmen, most of them British and American, who have already anted up $5 million. The startup money came from John Heyman, 43, a self-described "inactive...