Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special issues of "the oldest college daily" contained helpful hints on careers in advertising, insurance, and Wall Street. In addition to lavish advertising displays, included were such articles as "Insurance is Explosive as Ever," by a 70-year-old specialist: "Investment Banking: Bastion of Free World," by a stock broker; and "Schweppes in America: A Personal approach," by Commander Edward Whitchead...
...Manhattan Real Estate Broker William J. Hirschman knew, the two men might have been planning to hijack an airliner, breed whales or launch an armada. Otherwise, why would they want a building with at least 50,000 sq. ft. of floors, 40-ft.-high ceilings, and no interior columns? As it turned out, Ben Lieberman and Luke Sapan were neither subversives nor quacks, but high-powered businessmen with an abiding fondness for tennis and the determination to turn it from a strictly seasonal sport into a year-round affair...
...Broker Hirschman and Clients Lieberman and Sapan spent weeks scanning likely factories and lofts, finally turned to the skies for inspiration and found it-on a helicopter tour that took them over an old terminal building with a five-acre roof. In October, the Penthouse Tennis Club-eight clay courts that are thermostatically heated, lit by soft overhead lamps and maintained by a full-time staff-will open for business at the foot of Manhattan. (Seven more courts will open later.) Some would-be tennis players may find the yearly membership fees (ranging up to $500 per person...
...merger (still subject to approval by both boards of directors and stock holders) was fostered by the handiest kind of broker: Prentice-Hall President Carroll V. Newsom, onetime (1956-61) president of New York University, who is a member of RCA's board. After the merger, he will be joined on the board by Ettinger...
Died. Walter Gibson, 63, Wall Street broker widely credited as the sole inventor of the subspecial martini that bears his surname; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a habitue of the Ritz in Paris, Gibson gratified two hitherto mutually exclusive tastes, for dry gin and pickled pearl onions, by schooling the bartender to substitute a single Allium cepa for the conventional olive in his favorite cocktail. His claim was coldly, drily disputed, however, by those who attributed the gin-onion union to Artist Charles Dana Gibson or the late Will Gibson, Gene Tunney's primetime manager...