Word: brokering
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...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...
...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...
...said Producer Harold Mirisch when she sat down in his office and suggested that he take $5,000 worth of tickets. An hour later, the story goes, he had not only bought the tickets but called his broker and ordered him to buy all the Times Mirror stock he could lay his hands...
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...
Jenkins was more deeply implicated in the Bobby Baker scandal. During the Senate investigation, Maryland Insurance Broker Don Reynolds testified under oath that while he was trying to sell a $100,000 policy to Lyndon Johnson, Jenkins forced him to buy $1,208 worth of advertising time on Lady Bird Johnson's KTBC television station in Austin. Reynolds said he had no use for the advertising, but bought it anyway "because it was expected of me." "Who conveyed that thought to you?" asked Nebraska's Republican Senator Carl Curtis. Replied Reynolds: "Mr. Walter Jenkins...