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Midland buys into Crocker...
Since he became chairman of California's Crocker National Bank six years ago, Thomas Wilcox has been commuting by corporate jet between the bank's two main offices, in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Now Wilcox may have to fit in another stopover, London. Last week Midland Bank, Britain's third biggest, announced it was buying 51% of Crocker at a cost of between $815 million and $820 million. This will be the largest takeover ever of a U.S. bank by a foreign...
...Methodist church and "dreamed of marrying the blond boy" a few pews away, "in a baby-blue wedding with six bridesmaids, of becoming the perfect housekeeper and sex partner, and of having six children [and] writing perfect novels while perfect cakes baked in the oven in my Betty Crocker kitchen." She never made it. Instead, Daniell got hitched at 16 to a classically brutal good ole boy, divorced him and married upward to a dull architect, raised three children, had an affair with a "Famous Southern Poet," married again, a Northerner a decade her junior, left him for an extended...
Senior split end Richie Horner, closing out a spectacular career that leaves him third on the all-time Harvard receiving list, was voted the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award as the team's Most Valuable Player...
Besides opposing the power lines, the farmers are working on energy alternatives. "Windmills are starting to go up, solar collectors are being used, and people are working to control their own energy," Crocker says. "If you're going to be an addict, you might as well have your own stash...