Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year he joined with two other millionaire land investors, Bernard Selwyn and Herbert Edwards, both 42, to form Rammco. The company's aim: to make money by letting other investors in on the land boom. The partners buy up huge plots in Southern California, then sell chunks to investors and manage the land for them until its value rises and the owners sell out to other investors. Rammco earns its profit by charging a 10% commission on each transaction, now manages $50 million worth of land...
...Kotch will be played by actor James Coburn. According to the other producer, Bernard Birard. Kotch will be a "contemporary artistic hero...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...
Just in time for the crash. In 1929 he lost some $15 million in the market, but for the rest of his life did very nicely as a "policy consultant" to a number of mammoth institutions (among them: Old Friend Bernard Baruch...
...timely rewriting made the punch lines only more telling. Not that the audience was unaware that up there on stage "Miriam" was being played by Barry Goldwater's sister Carolyn (Mrs. Bernard Erskine), and the bitchy "Sylvia" by Barry's sister-in-law Sally (Mrs. Robert Goldwater). All of which did not dim the drama of the Act II hair-pulling scene between the two. And when Miriam looked at her arm, into which Sylvia had just sunk her teeth, and cried out, "My God! I need a rabies shot," it brought down the house. As for Sally...