Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warren, honorary chairman of next year's March of Dimes campaign in the District of Columbia, promised one small boy patient, a scissors-sharpening entrepreneur, to try to dig up a dull pair for honing...
...Entrepreneur at Large. Harriman soon felt the need to achieve goals that his father had not set up for him. He decided to do in steamships what his father had done in railroads. For a decade he was involved in shipping, investing his own money and his mother's, but there is a screen around the final financial result...
...still trying to discover how Roberts' name got on the Deepdale invitation list. No one admits to knowing him. Doyle also asked that all winners return their profits so that the money could be donated to charity. All except Armstrong and Roberts have said they will comply. Entrepreneur Armstrong insists that to do so would be an admission of taking part in the conspiracy. What's more, he does not like the idea of Deepdale club telling him how much he should donate to charity. Saddened, Deepdale intends to keep dogging Roberts until he returns his winnings...
...RATHER ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT YOUR THEME THAT THE ENTREPRENEUR IS NEITHER OBSOLETE NOR UNREWARDED AND SURPRISED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE DISTINGUISHED GROUP IN YOUR "NEW MILLIONAIRES" ARTICLE [DEC. 27], BUT AM DESPERATELY ANXIOUS YOUR READERS KNOW THAT I NEITHER APPRAISE THE FAMILY PURSE NOR MAKE PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENT AS TO ITS DIMENSIONS [TIME'S appraisal: $50 million]. MY FRIENDS SHUN ME AND MY ENGLISH PROFESSOR TURNS OVER IN HIS GRAVE AT THE SIGHT OF THAT AWFUL QUOTE "I'VE GOT SO MANY BUCKS TO PROVE...
...barony near Little Rock, Ark., was Jeanette Edris, 36, a tall, cool ex-debutante from Seattle, previously married to a pro football star, a lawyer and a broker. Jeanette's father is a logger's son named Bill Edris, 61, a four-times-married, hardfisted, carrot-topped entrepreneur who has amassed an estimated $10 million by putting his hand to all sorts of ventures (hotels, race tracks, theaters, etc.) in the Pacific Northwest. Like her father, Jeanette seems to have a clear knack for getting whatever she goes after. Rockefeller's friends immediately coined a private joke...