Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston belles will parade before the watery eyes of judges Vaughn Monroe, a prominent local entrepreneur, and a College representative, Harris or Venuti by name, in a fashion show at the Copley Plaza this noon...
When he came over to America from Greece at the age of sixteen, one of the first things the future entrepreneur did was to run an ad in the Boston Transcript offering to work a year without pay for any family who would teach him the English language. He got twelve answers, picked one at random, a doctor's home in a small Vermont town, and within twelve months was spouting like a native. Then he became a hotel waiter and moved successively through Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angels, and San Francisco. In 1914, after two years spent back...
...Fellows with a grant of two hundred pounds per annum for the toll bridge concession. But Hancock's profitable monopoly suffered thereupon from a bridge-building craze which lasted down to 1858 when the Commonwealth took over all the bridges. Harvard, in the meantime, continuing to assess each bridge entrepreneur for two or three hundred pounds, suffered no ill-effects...
...ethical principles which they expect promptly to ignore, but a truly realistic glance at the situation can only result in accepting the situation that exists. No college whose endowment stems chiefly from its football team can be expected to cut off its source of life; no tennis tournament entrepreneur is going to eliminate his well-padded list of expense accounts. The thin line that divides "amateur" from "professional" is becoming ever thinner, and no amount of high-flown oratory is going to stop it from doing so. Since any kind of a backward step is very unlikely, about...
...block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...