Word: crowther
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revitalize the 117-year-old sewing- pattern company. "We emphasized quality, cost containment and cash flow, and we made money," says Lewis. Indeed, McCall's earnings more than doubled last year, to $4.9 million. In July Lewis dazzled the financial community by selling McCall to the John Crowther Group, a British textilemaker. The buyer paid $63 million and agreed to assume $32 million in debts owed by McCall. For TLC, the deal meant a phenomenal 80-to-1 return on its initial $1 million investment...
...Tread on Me proves that the life story of Perelman was the adventures of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde. Early on he decided that Will Rogers' statement "I never met a man I didn't like" was "pure flatulence, crowd-pleasing and fake humility," and acted accordingly. Prudence Crowther, Perelman's friend during his last year, provides a wide-eyed introduction to these selected letters: "I talked about the Chaplin I'd just been watching; he knew Chaplin." But her accompanying notes illuminate a long and entertaining list of the writer's enmities...
...David Crowther, Chairman Lockheed Political Action Committee Burbank, Calif...
DIED. Bosley Crowther, 75, sober, scholarly film critic for the New York Times from 1940 to 1967, and author of The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire (1957) and Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer (1960); of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco...