Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father, the company's founder, as Hallmark's president. A civic-minded Kansas City booster, Hall has set up an inner-city training center for the poor and inexperienced and has also taken charge of a project begun in 1967 by his father-Crown Center, a privately financed $200 million redevelopment that is transforming 23 dilapidated city blocks into a handsome apartment, hotel, office and shopping complex...
...delight to read the refreshing article on Reggie Jackson [June 3]. I am glad some light was cast on the humane side of an individual who is too often looked on as an overpaid hot dog. Reggie Jackson is a fine athlete who gives a booster shot to a game that seems to be losing its momentum...
...eleven-month stay in a Swiss prison following the collapse of his Investors Overseas Services empire has hardly crimped Bernie Cornfeld's style. Now free on $1.6 million bail, the one time booster of mutual funds was enjoying the good life last week in his 40-room Beverly Hills mansion. On hand to speed his rehabilitation, and help him forget the $122.5 million in lawsuits that he faces, were a covey of admiring roommates. "I have 22 bedrooms, and 19 of them are occupied," said Cornfeld proudly. "Women give life sparkle and keep things from getting drab." Then, turning...
...morale booster for the President," says Herschensohn. "Last October he said that when he had time, he would like to see and thank some of the people doing so much for him." In this time when the usual run of White House news is poor to dismal, those brief interludes are more frequent...
...expected to take one look at the enterprise and run in the opposite direction. Right? Wrong. The money-losing operation happens to involve big-time sport, and the locale happens to be Cleveland, where an athletic franchise is almost guaranteed to bring out the small boy and large civic booster hidden in many businessmen...