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Europe +0.84% Asia -0.67% North and Cent. America -1.04% Oceania...
...jingle of coins multiplying at two per cent per annum has given way to the jingle of the singing commercial, And their advertisements, implying that anyone who doesn't turn in his this year's car for a next year's model with all the latest accessories and borrow the difference from them is a frugal old fogy, range from the supplicatory to the coercial...
...small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins. That's where I found "Lewis Boogie," a tune that, in its rollicking rockin' propulsion, fully merits a place next to his two signature hits. It begins as abrupt as wartime reveille: four four-note phrases, each an octave lower than the preceding, on a piano that sounds a little flat in the upper registers. Then JLL races into his vocal. This is a 12-bar blues with a difference: the breaks...
...through college playing guitar in a wedding band and occasionally waiting tables. At one of his first restaurant jobs, the staff pooled tips, which didn't seem fair to a hard worker like him. Within a month, he had moved to another restaurant, where he got to keep every cent he earned. "There seems to have been a fanaticism about getting every last nickel. That was his Achilles' heel," says Marc Feigen, managing partner of Katzenbach Partners, a consulting firm in New York City, who got to know Kozlowski through a business-school leadership program...
...could not close this reminiscence without mentioning Cronins Bar. It was here that much education was discussed. However, the small glasses of 10-cent beer lacked distinction. One night, after much carousing, a student, at least I suppose it was a student from somewhere, shouted that the beer was undrinkable and Cronin came over to see what the matter was. He tasted the beer, spat it out and picked up the student and threw him out the door, much to the amusement of all in the beer hall...