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...country found a society more tolerant than it was to become after the Civil War. Flagrant anti-Semitism of the sort familiar to 20th century Americans was born (or at least blurted forth) in Saratoga, N.Y., in 1877, when fashionable Hotel Manager Henry Hilton turned away Investment Banker Joseph Seligman and publicly announced: "No Israelites shall be permitted in the future...
...will visit Wall Street to tell investors about his new line of skin-care products, called Glycel, which promises to help erase wrinkles through a scientific process. Barnard and a team of biologists developed the formula at an institute in Basel, Switzerland. Barnard's business partner is a former banker who now owns La Prairie, a Swiss clinic where youth formulas were tried out by the likes of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle...
...acquire Frontier Airlines for $305 million. Burr says he made the decision to buy the Denver-based carrier without consulting other People executives when the deal was suggested to him by Jack Maatee, a lawyer for Frontier, during a tennis outing at the home of a New York investment banker. "I was convinced," says Burr, "that it was the brilliant thing...
...ready to write books. The latest tome will in fact be called Washington Wives, a "real-view, behind-the-scenes" novel that is now being written by Maureen Dean, 40. The wife of Watergate Defendant John Dean is a stockbroker living in Beverly Hills (and John is an investment banker). She already has one book to her credit, 1975's "Mo": A Woman's View of Watergate, but insists that the new one is "totally fiction." A Woman Lost, due in July from former Senate Wives Abigail McCarthy and Jane Muskie, is a "suspense novel" involving the wife...
Conable is a lawyer by training, rather than a banker, but he has impressive leadership credentials. Born in Warsaw, N.Y., and educated at Cornell University, the independent-minded legislator from Rochester first won his seat in the House of Representatives in 1964 and speedily garnered bipartisan respect for his intelligence, diligence and integrity. As a member of, and eventually the ranking Republican on, the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Conable was an expert on U.S. tax policy and a vocal proponent of free international trade. In 1980 he served as finance chairman of George Bush...