Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven quiet years, Ira Dennison, an upstate New York businessman, found the Adirondack Mountains over-looking Lake George a virtually soundproof haven from his workaday world. Then bulldozers rumbled onto his property, and the bosky dreamland in front of his colonial homestead became a concrete nightmare. Once remote and inaccessible, his hideaway was partly absorbed by a new exit for the six-lane Albany-to-Montreal Northway...
...Bank. Beyond insisting on reasonable prices and courteous service, Jewel's top brass give their underlings remarkably free rein. They have divided Jewel into eleven individual "companies," each of them virtual fiefdoms whose executives receive from headquarters little more than general guidelines. "It's almost like a businessman going to his banker," says one company official. As if to emphasize their autonomy, Jewel's latest annual report contains photographs of 55 such middle-range executives-but none of either Chairman Clements or President Perkins...
...workers' paradise across the Elbe in East Germany, where the old law has been abolished and the bakers' ovens glow all the long night. To remedy the West's plight, and despite East and West Germans' conflicts over Berlin, Hannoverian Businessman Hans-Joachim Ermeler, 45, reached across the Iron Curtain and asked East Berlin's Trade Commission if it would be interested in shipping 60,000 fresh Brötchen over the border each morning. The East Germans were indeed: the deal will net the Communist regime some $250,000 a year in hard-currency...
...sons, Richard B. and, most conspicuously, Andrew W., who really built the Mellon fortune (which by conservative estimate now totals at least $3 billion and perhaps a good deal more). "Andrew Mellon was possibly the most brilliant businessman whom our society has produced," wrote FORTUNE'S Charles J. V. Murphy recently. "He was a banker who understood corporations and an investor who understood men." The two brothers were so close that they ran a joint bank account for as long as they were both alive. The brothers' philosophy: Bet on a man with an idea, taking a share...
Conceptual art has become a favorite with avant-garde collectors. Kosuth's photographic version of real has already been bought by Businessman-Collector John Powers. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on view ten scale models, sketches and photomontages by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who set out to show what the museum would look like if its building were wrapped in canvas and tied up with rope. Museum Curator William S. Rubin found Christo's ideas, with or without the rope to hang them by, a "poetic" comment on packaging, which has "become...