Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pagan Rights. As usual, there is considerable hand-wringing by purists and priests, who complain that the cash box has replaced the creche. But the fact remains that Christmas never completely belonged to the church. It began as a pagan festival, and it has slowly been changing back into one for the past half-century...
Next, $10 Million? At $3,861 per sq. in., Simon was simply playing caveat emptor according to the rules. The prince, currently hard pressed for cash following several unsuccessful business ventures, agreed-but he was in no mood to let his treasure cross his principality's boundaries or risk an adverse verdict. When negotiations broke down, the prince's art dealer, Josef Farago, issued a categorical denial: "The prince would not dream of selling the Leonardo." As for the prince, he was, as one to the manner born, off hunting in Austria. Does this mean that Ginevra...
...Director George Abbott, got a lot of tips and contacts from him. When he was 25, Prince and another Abbott aide, the late Robert Griffith, bought an option on a book called 7½?, hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels. From 164 investors, he raised $250,000 for the show-The Pajama Game...
...Argonne National Laboratories outside Chicago heard of Mickelson's expertise in this narrow specialty, invited him in 1955 to start building experimental computer parts, offered to supply the raw materials. Mickelson figured that the demand for memory cores would be so great that even a small firm could cash in on it. He set up Fabri-Tek in his basement, working nights and weekends while he held his daytime job at Remington Rand. His total investment in the new company was for "some wire, solder, tweezers, and a little pair of nippers-altogether...
Dennis still feels somewhat vengeful toward the people in Hawthorne who snickered at the group. "I like showing them that we've got a lot of cash," he says. "When I visit my mother there, I drive my Ferrari down Hawthorne Boulevard, go home, drive the Cobra along the same street, and do the same thing with the Aston-Martin and my brother's old T-Bird." Like the others, he owns his own home in Beverly Hills. He and his brothers replaced the old home in Hawthorne with a "mansion for mother. It's sort of like a neighborhood...