Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn-born son of a mortgage broker, DiLorenzo made his first deal at 17. He borrowed $1,100 to buy a brownstone, which he sold for $3,000. In 1951 he teamed with Goldman, a boyhood pal who was running a wholesale grocery for his ailing father, to buy a 600-unit apartment. DiLorenzo considers it merely "human nature" that his rapid rise led the Government to scrutinize his activities a few years ago. "I had four FBI men following me for some time," he says with a smile. "But they dropped the investigations." Now DiLorenzo and Goldman...
...after she presented her painting to the President in Washington, he wrote her that it was "a marvelous piece of work. You have captured a piece of my early years that mean a great deal to me." The President also owns her paintings of the LBJ Ranch and his boyhood home in Johnson City. I am very proud...
...replace the murdered Premier, the Shah appointed Mansur's boyhood friend and chief aide, Finance Minister Amirabass Hoveida, 45. Trained as a political economist and career diplomat, Hoveida also served briefly as chairman of the National Iranian Oil Co. He will probably need all his financial experience; despite mounting oil revenues, Iran faces a growing fiscal squeeze aggravated by the high cost of public works and industrialization projects, last year's drought and declining U.S. aid. New Premier Hoveida took up his complex tasks with the promise that "except for the sad absence of Mansur, nothing is changed...
Nine months after John Kennedy became President, an old boyhood friend joined him in Washington, taking up residence in the massive British embassy on Massachusetts Avenue. As Her Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S., David Ormsby Gore, who became Lord Harlech on the death of his father last year, had nearly everything in his favor: a wealth of international experience, an easygoing charm, a beautiful wife, and a long intimacy with the Kennedy family dating back to Father Joe's own ambassadorial days in London. Able to pick up the phone and get instantly through to Kennedy...
...viewpoint nicely balanced between business and show business. He bridges the large gulf between the accountant and the tousled genius. He can figure a budget within 5%, and when he gets it figured, he knows what the money is being spent on. He began learning his business during his boyhood as a movie theater usher in C'eveland, and at 21 he became vice president for advertising and promotion at a nightclub called the Mayfair Casino. The bands who played there were booked in by MCA, which then literally was the Music Corporation of America, run by Jules Stein...