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...many ways, Armand G. Erpf is a contemporary man of myth and a contemporary hero. An investment banker (he is a senior partner in Loeb, Rhoades & Co.) and a multimillionaire at 71, Erpf is regarded as one of Wall Street's most secretive and successful adventurers, risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in quixotic, unpredictable enterprises, among them New York magazine. There is a $500,000 chair endowed in his honor at Columbia University, and another-of the wooden, folding variety-bearing his name at New York's Theater for Ideas, an intellectual audience-participation forum, of which...
...Catskills. And not just a collection of decorative hedging either. He called Michael Ayrton, a maze-mad English sculptor, architect and author of The Maze Maker, a fictional autobiography of Daedalus. "I just read your book," said Erpf. "I want one of those." Today, thanks to Ayrton, Armand Erpf has "one of those...
...Ambassadors Charles Yost of the U.S., Armand Bérard of France, Yakov Malik of the Soviet Union, and Lord Caradon of Britain gathered around the polished mahogany dining table in Bérard's Park Avenue flat...
Careers have been built on a lot less, but then Raquel started with a lot less. Daughter of a Bolivian engineer named Armand Tejada, Raquel moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 1944, when she was two. The proximity to Hollywood was not wasted on the skinny, ambitious child. At 15, she had a lead role in the local Mexican festival. After a little TV and some modeling, she decided, at 21, to make it in the movies...
...appointed officials such as chamber of commerce presidents. These councils will levy local taxes, prepare local budgets and plan economic development. If the plan is approved in the forthcoming referendum-and that approval seems almost certain-the regions may be able to "renew their personality," as French Technocrat Louis Armand once put it, "without having to do it through that monster that is Paris...