Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bantam Books, after giving Iacocca a comparatively modest $150,000 advance, "is surprised at the success," says Bantam President Louis Wolfe. "We didn't expect this." After a scheduled first printing of 150,000, low best- seller range, the author raised a ruckus. "I broke my butt for this?" he asked Wolfe...
Iacocca earns an estimated $3 on every copy of his book that Bantam sells. That comes out to about $4 million so far. But he also earned $1 million in salary and bonus last year, and is probably worth about $20 million besides. His publishing income he is giving away. The money will endow the Lee Iacocca Foundation, a philanthropy run by Daughter Kathi. Part will be passed on to the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. His wife Mary, who died in 1983, was diabetic...
After playing at the Squirt level in Ontario, the Sweeney family returned to New Brunswick. Then, the year before high school, at age 14, he made an important decision to play Junior B instead of Bantam...
...aside from choosing to play defense. Mark Benning hasn't gone the traditional Benning family route: from skating as two-year-old through midect bantam and junior hockey to the National Hockey League...
...made millionaire, gave guest lectures at Harvard Business School in the late 1960s, he sensed in the students' questions an academic naivete about business. He thought they needed "street smarts." Now McCormack has helped out by writing What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam; $15.95), a potpourri of tips for anyone who works for a company, runs one or wants...