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Edwin C. Whitehead of Greenwich, Conn.--who is the largest stockholder of Revlon, Inc.--has offered to fund an independent facility called "The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research" and staffed by MIT scientists...
...Jersey towns. Harry Streep II was a pharmaceutical company executive, and his wife Mary Louise a commercial artist. The parents were "fond of us, to put it mildly; they thought we were the greatest thing ever born," says Meryl. The elder Streeps, now retired and living in Mystic, Conn., were forever taking Meryl and their two boys (Brother Dana, 28, is a bonds salesman who lives in New Jersey) to museums, the theater, the ballet and ball games. But Meryl had few friends, and as far as anyone knew only one asset, a "nice, light, coloratura voice." At twelve...
...five years the Bridgeport, Conn., city government and police force had been under extensive federal investigation. Apparently frustrated by the lack of results, the FBI decided to try an old-fashioned sting. The bait was Thomas Marra Jr., 28, a convicted car thief awaiting sentencing. Marra's father and uncle held a $100,000-a-year contract from Bridgeport to tow stolen cars-or did until last May, when motorists complained that equipment had been pilfered from the recovered autos. The FBI plan: Marra would offer Police Superintendent Joseph Walsh $30,000 to reinstate the contract. Walsh agreed...
Executive relocation services, which in the past have concentrated on finding new homes for employees on the move, are now looking for ways to deal with the two-career dilemma. New Horizons Corp. of Stamford, Conn., has created a subsidiary that acts as an employment agency specializing in finding jobs for spouses. Another Connecticut-based relocation firm, Home Buyers Assistance Corp., has developed the Job Information Bank, a computerized catalogue of likely employment openings for spouses with about 150 companies in Connecticut and New Jersey. Explains Benno Curtis, senior vice president of Home Buyers Assistance: "If AT&T brings...
DIED. Samuel Meek, 85, who as overseas manager of the J. Walter Thompson Co. helped build it into the world's largest advertising agency; in Greenwich, Conn. A former managing editor of the Yale Daily News, Meek was instrumental in helping two of his ex-staffers, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, to obtain the financing to launch TIME magazine in 1923. Meek, who served on the Time Inc. board of directors for 48 years, joined Thompson in 1925 and expanded its fledgling international operations to 35 offices on six continents before retiring as vice chairman...