Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Roy Marcus Cohn at 32 bought control of Lionel Corp. in 1959, he was something like a little boy with a big toy. He switched the profitless model-train maker into everything from electronics to parachutes, brought in former Army Missile Chief John B. Medaris as president. Lionel turned into the black in 1960, but then some of Cohn's costly schemes began to sour. The company lost $2,500,000 in 1961, another $4,000,000 in 1962; Cohn shucked off several of the new subsidiaries and eased out General Medaris. Last week the word went...
...tooth of his own in his head; Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared in her column, it must be because hard-cover publishers are more broad-minded than editors of family newspapers...
...outstanding stock, plus two former Bon Ami employees-ex-Vice President Olen Webb, 40. and his wife Pat, 44. who for more than ten years was Weesner's $12,000-a-year private secretary. Guided by Tel-A-Sign's largest stockholder. Attorney Roy Cohn, 35. onetime Boy Friday to the late Senator Joe McCarthy, the coalition charged that Weesner and his directors had illegally disposed of $550,000 in Bon Ami funds. Most of this money, they charged, was used to help pay off an $810,000 loan assumed by the Weesner team when it took control...
Harvard will compete in the varsity division. The first event will be the "Happi Bagh" (elephant run), which is a sprint. Then comes the "Poni Cohn" (water thief), in which the elephants must carry a bucket of water in their trunks without getting the mahouts...
Last week it looked as if New York's Bob Wagner would win the power to buy out Fifth Avenue Coach at a court-determined price and turn its runs over to other local lines. Even so, Wheeler-Dealer Weinberg stood to gain. Attorney Roy Cohn looked forward to a "bonanza." The company's book asset value is $50 million; if the court orders the city to pay only half that much under condemnation proceedings, Weinberg will get $36 apiece for shares that cost him $18. He wants more. "I think $120 million is a fair price...