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...start, he bought control in 1957 of a parts distributor in Houston and a small parts manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Mich., merged them to create Gulf & Western. Then he began acquiring young executives as rapidly as he bought up companies. He persuaded Houston's John Duncan, a coffee dealer whom he had met in the commodities trade, to sell out his personal holdings and invest $112,000 in G. & W. Next he induced David Judelson, a New Jersey machine-tool maker whom he had met on a vacation at Lake Champlain, N.Y., to put up another $50,000. Today...
...Operation Match executive said last night that a similar fate befell a Contact questionnaire distributor last week at Yale...
...times larger than its nearest competitors. Lately he has made himself West Germany's movie king as well. He has bought the famed but financially troubled Ufa studio, and last month he acquired a 50% interest in Munich's Constantin Filmverleih, the country's biggest film distributor and producer. It specializes in grinding out Wild West films in the Yugoslav mountains...
...himself hailed as "the new Stirling Moss." All that praise was flattering, but Jim would have preferred to win the championship that went instead to Britain's Graham Hill. He would have had it, too, if "one bloody little runt of a screw" had not fallen off the distributor shaft and let loose his oil while he was leading in the South African Grand Prix...
Colt will come here in late June to work with Rousmaniere for a month before taking over the former director's duties on Aug. 1. He is presently General Manager of Marketing for the Airco Distributor Products Division. Colt began his career as a storeroom clerk with that firm in 1947 and progressed through sales and management positions...