Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writers named Martin L. Rackin and John Lee Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat fee plus 10% of the gross after the movie has earned back its production costs...
...Born in 1905 in Kishinev in the Balkans, the son of Isaac and Zelta Haia, who were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...
...year has brought a great change in the attitude of the HSA towards its public. Time will show a similar change of attitude of students towards HSA. Improved public relations, more regard for the individual entrepreneur, and less attempts at coercion of established business can make the HSA a much less suspected part of the Cambridge community
...that "sugar is my mistress," and in serious moments insists that "the degree of a people's civilization is related to their sugar consumption-less civilized people use less sugar." The man: Julio Lobo (meaning wolf), 59, who bears the scars of his lifelong love affair with sugar. Entrepreneur Lobo carries a .38 caliber slug imbedded in his skull, put there by a Cuban gangster ostensibly bent on robbery. He has had three heart attacks. Yet he works a 14-hour day, and spends so much time inspecting his far-flung properties that he has a Cadillac specially equipped...
...Prague court last week, a Czechoslovak entrepreneur named Roman Novotny drew a stiff sentence of 4½ years in prison and forfeiture of all his property for engaging in one of the most profitable -and widely practiced-businesses behind the Iron Curtain. With a group of friends Novotny rounded up 56 used cars of various makes in the first six months of 1957 alone, sold them at up to double official prices set by the Communist government. Chided Radio Prague: "The speculators exploited the impatience and lack of discipline of the citizens...