Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your March 22 story on the identity of Yves Saint-Laurent's angel, Atlanta Businessman J. Mack Robinson, was in fact an earlier exclusive by one of our papers, Women's Wear Daily...
When the university opened in 1868, with Scholar White as president, Businessman Cornell gave it a stunning lesson in fund raising. Spending some $525,000 for the privilege, he took charge of the bulk of the school's federal scrip for 990,000 acres of public land. He swapped the scrip for choice Wisconsin timberland, which eventually soared in value. When sold off, it netted the university almost $6,000,000. White meantime scoured Europe for top scholars, set high standards, and took such a dim view of football that he once vetoed a game in Cleveland with...
...49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay I had to find out if he's really that good." Ernie Braca, Sugar Ray Robinson's ex-manager, said that even the scalpers were out of tickets. "The wires are red-hot," he said. "Businessmen that...
...city is all about: its labyrinths of power, the pulsators of its machinery, the structure of its institutions, the yearnings of its people. Chicago's motto, I WILL, is Daley's personal and political charter. Buddha though he is, he gets things done. Says a leading businessman: "Nothing ever happens in Chicago without landing on Daley's desk for decision." Daley, with characteristic caution, agrees. "We participate in one way or another." he says, "in the important things that happen...
Through all the years of Marshal Tito's Communist rule, a special niche has been provided for the small private businessman who was somehow able to supply products and services the state-controlled organization could not match. But a year or so ago, the profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount...