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Sinatra arrived for rehearsals unprepared for the capital's chill weather. The next morning he was the first customer at the local branch of Brooks Brothers, whose accommodating staff sent Ol' Blue Eyes back outside wearing a new blue coat. It evidently kept the singer more than comfortably warm, especially under his collar. Two days later the Washington Post published a long story noting that not only Sinatra but also Entertainers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were in town for the Inauguration, and speculating about a rebirth of the infamous, Sinatra-led Rat Pack of the '60s. Approached...
...sound," argues a gentleman who is traveling with a box containing a large chiming clock. "So you're stuck belly to belly with a stranger. At least you're with the nicest commuters." He does not mean nicer than Chicago commuters, or even Connecticut commuters. He is a branch-line chauvinist, and he means nicer than the commuters on the Oyster Bay line or the Ronkonkoma line...
...cooker, "is where the action will be." Regan, former president and chairman of Merrill Lynch, had long eyed Baker's job from his Treasury post and readily traded his prestigious title for a position of greater power. Contended one of Regan's Treasury Department aides: "He considers the Executive Branch to be like a corporation. Cabinet members are vice presidents, the President is the chairman of the board, the chief of staff is the chief operating officer...
...were his ambitions. Called back to New York in 1960 after managing the Philadelphia branch office for five years, he sought and won authority to open a long-range planning section that laid the groundwork for transforming Merrill Lynch from a chain of brokerage offices into an enormous financial supermarket, complete with insurance, real estate and savings services. As a result, Merrill Lynch was able to breeze past the collapse of the '60s go-go market and, as the deregulation era dawned, to become a serious contender for retail-banking customers. Asked in 1979 to describe the financial institution...
DeMatha alumni include Maryland's Adrian Branch, North Carolina State. Sidney Lowe and Dereck Whittenberg, and a host of hoop gods who have gone on to bigger and only slightly better things...