Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest hopscotch arena" and hopscotched around it like a great shambling bear. Claes Oldenburg, as softly pudgy as his sculptures of melting typewriters made of vinyl plastic, politely ate his way through the festival. Rauschenberg himself was busy at Venice's elegant Teatro La Fenice, working with Merce Cunningham's avant-garde ballet troupe, for which he designs props and occasionally does choreography. Since his suitcase had gone astray between Paris and Venice, he was using a safety pin to hold up his pants...
...will carry a huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained it in the 1958 defense. Eagle's skipper: William S. Cox, 51, an international champion in small boats, whose lack of extensive big-boat experience is offset...
Manhattan Real Estate Man Walter S. Gubelmann, Commodore Harold Vanderbilt, Briggs Cunningham and 28 top-notch yachtsmen. Skipper: Eric Ridder, 45, who has raced to more than a dozen ocean victories as captain of Gubel-mann's famed yawl Windigo and has chosen a crew seasoned with Windigo sailors. They have already been training for six weeks on an old twelve rebuilt to match Constellation's deck layout...
EXPANDING a dime-store chain into the discount business has been an $80 million gamble for Harry Blair Cunningham, 56, president of S.S. Kresge Co. The gamble seems to be paying off: last week Kresge opened four more of its K-Marts, raising the total of its discount branches to 61 out of a chain of 876 stores. Detroit-based Kresge still ranks behind Woolworth...
Grant, but under Cunningham it is growing faster than either; its sales in January and February ran 28% ahead of the record levels of 1963, when they reached $504 million. A Pennsylvania farm boy who was once a reporter for the Harrisburg Patriot, Cunningham started in a Kresge stock room 36 years ago, became chief executive in 1959. He promptly replaced all its vice presidents with younger men, but kept up the firm's traditions: no smoking or coffee drinking in the offices, men separated from women in the company cafeterias. On weekends, Cunningham likes to pop into...