Word: broker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Governor and Mrs. Averell Harriman (he calls her "Ma"), NBC's Robert Sarnoffs, and Mrs. Henry Ford II, all of whom dug Duchin's tinkling into the small hours. But Dad might not have been pleased. "I think he would have preferred that I become a broker or banker." said Peter. "Being an orchestra leader, he told me, was a hard life...
...Minutes of Thought. The rise of Joseph Hirshhorn, from those bleak Brooklyn years to his start as a 17-year-old broker on the New York Curb Exchange and finally to the fortune he has made out of Canadian uranium, has long been a legend in business and financial circles. But even after this legend has faded, he will be remembered as a collector. Every top dealer on both sides of the Atlantic knows the bustling little (5 ft. 4 in.) figure with the torrent of enthusiasm. And scores of U.S. artists who are now prosperous and famous remember...
...sequel to Teddy's efforts to improve his football skills. At Harvard, Teddy fumed at the fact that Clasby could outrun him. "Dick," he said, "sometime in the next ten years I'll bet I beat you in a race." Last month, when Clasby, now a lumber broker in a Detroit suburb, visited Teddy in Hyannisport, Kennedy suddenly announced: "I think I'm ready for that bet now." Clasby looked bewildered, but Teddy recalled his old challenge. The two marked off a so-yd. course on the lawn-and Teddy won by two yards...
Einstein in Arabic. Franklin, fittingly named for Ben, set out in 1952 to be "the ambassador of American publishing"−nonprofit broker for countries hungry for U.S. books. It is headed by Datus C. Smith Jr., former director of the Princeton University Press, and governed by a board of directors that includes top U.S. publishers, librarians, industrialists and university presidents...
...Cobb, she moved into a house he rented for her. Cobb, known as "W. Edward Cobb," showed up in Roanoke only sporadically -he was thought to be an insurance claims adjuster and aircraft inspector whose work kept him traveling. In Morganton, where he was actually a successful lumber broker, he explained his frequent absences to his wife of 19 years and to his adopted son by pleading the pressures of business and politicking. He shuttled back and forth between both homes like an airborne Alec Guinness, and fathered two children by Linda...