Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Houghton Library houses an extensive collection of Wolfe's papers, the gift of New Orleans businessman William B. Wisdom, and has "thousands of Wolfe's letters," Rodney J. Dennis, curator of manuscripts in the Harvard libraries, said yesterday...
Some Christmas cheer for Bert Lance. First, Saudi businessman Ghaith Pharaon said he would pay $20 a share (more than 33% above the going rate) for 120,000 shares of the former Budget Director's stock in the National Bank of Georgia. The $2.4 million deal should leave a fat profit (a third of a million or so) in Lance's stocking. Then there was a gift from Wife LaBelle: a family portrait by Atlanta Artist Comer Jennings. LaBelle especially liked how Jennings painted her diamond pendant-the "broken heart," as she calls it, that Bert gave...
...daughter of a black Alabama businessman who "never wanted us to have to work for white people" and who instilled in her a strict work ethic, Collins allows no time for apathy, or mischief, at Westside. Class runs nonstop until noon. Math is taught, but reading and writing take precedence. Collins divides her pupils into three reading groups of varying ability, launching the five-year-olds with Aesop's Fables and assigning myths, novels and legends to the more advanced students. She draws up her own comprehension questions based on the classics ("Mount Olympus is the home...
...Conn.,.an almost stereotypically proper and affluent Northeastern suburb. The speaker, Lee Buck, 54, is a senior vice president of the New York Life Insurance Co. "Before, I wanted to be successful in the world," says Buck. "Now I want to exalt the Lord. I want to stay a businessman, but I want people to know that God changes lives. You don't drop out of the world because you become a Christian." Buck now spends his free time preaching to far-flung church and business groups...
...Bruce, 79, paradigm of the American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong...