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...world. These guys have been around the track. Why do they choose to invest directly? Because they are not helpless. They are a bunch of hard-nosed businessmen." Rodney Brady, who runs Deseret Management Corp., has a Harvard business doctorate, served as executive vice president of pharmaceutical giant Bergen Brunswig and from 1970 to '72 was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Similar figures fill the church's upper management: Tony Burns, a "stake president" (the rough equivalent of an archbishop), is chairman of Miami-based Ryder Systems, the truck-rental empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KINGDOM COME | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...time cash registers fall quiet on Saturday night, retailers expect to see a holiday season sales gain of up to 15% over last year. This would make 1983 the strongest Yule since 1977, and even that could turn out to be a conservative prediction. Says Esther Brunswig, manager of the Emporium-Capwell department store in Palo Alto, Calif.: "We're going to have the biggest Christmas ever. Everything is selling." Merchants ranging from Gucci in Beverly Hills to the McRae's department store chain in Jackson, Miss., are ringing up their highest daily revenues on record. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sugarplum Shopping Spree | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...Denver, when Miles Brunswig asked Lucille Stute to marry him, she refused. He went home to Haigler, Neb., put a note in his home-town paper announcing his marriage to another girl. Lucille Stute took a train for Haigler to see what was what, found there was no other girl, married Miles Brunswig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Amnesia | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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