Word: chocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. William Black, 53, chunky, outspoken founder of the Chock Full O' Nuts coffee-packing and quick-lunch chain; and Vocalist Page Morton, 32, the second wife in a row whom Philanthropist Black (who bankrolled the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and recently donated a $5,000,000 medical research building to Columbia University) has employed to sing his company's TV commercials; he for the third time, she for the first; in Stamford, Conn...
...alumnus ('20) whose cool $5,000,000 gift in 1960 was the biggest ever received by Columbia from a living man. On hand was William Black himself, a self-styled "poor kid from Brooklyn," who parlayed a Times Square nut stand into the $33.7 million-a-year Chock Full O'Nuts Corp. At such ceremonies, the honored donor's speech is expected to contain a little modest reminiscence and some high-minded platitudes. What Black delivered instead was a brief, jarring indictment of "unessential" philanthropies. In two minutes flat, he denounced: > Columbia's plan...
...tiny Swiss mountain village of Unterwasser, near the Austrian border, live people with names like Tsering Ken-chock, Tashi Samdup and D'Olma Doji. Instead of being apple-cheeked blonds, they are brown-faced, black-haired, almond-eyed, and smell faintly of rancid yak butter...
...here to originate, to stimulate new ideas and programs, and not just to adjudicate arguments. You've got to do things differently or else you're not improving them." Up at 6 a.m., and in the office at 7:10 six days a week, he puts in chock-full twelve-hour days, moves fast...
...straight 700's on her Scholastic Aptitude and English Achievement Tests she ranks in the top tenth of her high school or prep school class; principal and teachers alike detect 'no' flaw in her brains, character, and personality; her interviewer finds her alert and eager, chock-full of intellectual curiosity. By objective standards, she will profit immensely from and contribute greatly to any college in the country. But will she get into Radcliffe? Not necessarily, for an average of 1,000 equally well qualified girls have applied for the last three years--and Radcliffe has space for only...