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...Richard Armour, Max Schulman, Thomas Meehan, Dick Cavett's staff writers, and Woody Allen have already been solicited, and are expected to join former Lampoon editors in contributing to the magazine's content...
Parsons and David J. Armour, assistant professor of Sociology, stood talking near the door most of the time. Later, just after a player piano had been wheeled out of the middle elevator, they stepped in and disappeared...
...immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter Gropius as the director of the Dessau Bauhaus, only to close up the experimental workshop three years later in protest against Nazi restrictions. In 1938, an invitation to head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full flowering of his genius. "He always said he would have created the same things if he had stayed in Germany," says Mies' grandson, Architect Dirk Lohan, "but personally I believe that the special climate...
Then came the black knights. First, Charles Bluhdorn, ruler of the aggressive empire of Gulf & Western, cast covetous eyes at Prince's Armour. Secretly manipulating his pawns on Wall Street, Bluhdorn acquired almost 10% of Armour before Billy could blink. In the nick of time, an ally, the Trustbusters, came to Billy's rescue and went after Bluhdorn with mace and chain. Bluhdorn wisely sold his interest in Armour to another power, General Host, whose ruler, iron-willed Richard Pistell, also coveted Prince's realm. Pistell offered Billy's shareholders a chance to trade Armour stock...
...which derived its power from transporting people in buses. Greyhound was willing to pay more than General, and Billy urged his supporters to accept its beneficence. Many of them did, but even more accepted General's new offer, which was even richer. Soon Greyhound owned one-third of Armour, and General more than half...