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DIED. AL LAPIN JR., 76, entrepreneurial coffee-cart operator who, with his younger brother Jerry, co-founded the chalet-style International House of Pancakes chain of restaurants; of cancer; in Los Angeles. He built the first blue-roofed IHOP in Los Angeles in 1958 and turned the business into a $40 million conglomerate by 1970. But three years later, a recession and tightened credit forced him to sell his stake for a mere...
...DIED. AL LAPIN JR., 76, entrepreneurial coffee-cart operator who, with younger brother Jerry, co-founded the chalet-style International House of Pancakes chain of restaurants; in Los Angeles. Lapin built the first blue-roofed IHOP in Los Angeles in 1958 and turned it into a $40 million conglomerate by 1970. But three years later, a recession and tightened credit forced him to sell his stake for a mere...
Holter tosses me the keys, and we cruise Los Angeles' west side. Hmm. Nice pickup. Lots of room. A smooth ride--no wimpy golf-cart feel as in some smaller hybrids. At slow speeds, the quiet gas engine disengages and a virtually silent electric motor takes over. Unless I were blindfolded--not a great idea while driving any car--I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the Escape Hybrid and the gas-only model. But there's one important difference: this green machine averages 35 m.p.g. off the highway--15 m.p.g. more than the regular Escape--proving...
...Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...year they are projecting about $500,000 in revenue, but their best reward might be seeing the salsa move into the hands of the consumer. "We were in a Kroger store recently by our display, and a lady came by and put a jar of our salsa in her cart," Glenda recalls. "It was a gratifying moment to see someone pick up our product...