Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DISNEY VERSION, by Richard Schickel. Within a carefully prepared social, cultural and artistic context, Cinema Critic Schickel sees the late creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland as embodying the best and worst traits of the hard-charging entrepreneur...
There is a triple tragedy in this. Most important, it will mean the flight of profits out of the community -- probably into the suburbs as soon as the black entrepreneur can afford to use the profits to buy a split-level. It will also mean the loss of the entrepreneur's talent--for his creative skill will go into making his own fortune, not into helping the community...
This was precisely why California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, who controls 34% of Canada Dry through his Hunt Foods & Industries, wooed Mahoney away from the $160,000-a-year executive-vice-presidency of Colgate-Palmolive. A veteran of package-goods wars at Colgate, at advertising agencies (his own and Ruthrauff & Ryan) and at Good Humor Corp. (where he had been president), Mahoney, 44, proved to be a dash of effervescence. By paring administrative overhead and closing two of the company's 16 bottling plants, he cut $1,500,000 a year from operating costs. To pep up promotion, he hired...
This past Sunday the young athlete-entrepreneur won the Intercollegiate Singles Championship for the second straight year. Nayar won impressively, losing only 1 of 19 games, but the victory he wants most has eluded...
...sleazy theatrical producer (Zero Mostel) enlists the aid of his wide-eyed accountant (Gene Wilder) in a convoluted cabal. Given the improper circumstances, a Broadway entrepreneur can make more from a flop than he can from a hit-by pocketing the backers' money after the show folds. Accordingly, the two men begin a search for the world's worst script. Mostel finally zeroes in on Springtime for Hitler, written by an unrepentant Nazi who believes that the Führer was infinitely superior to Churchill because he had more hair and besides, he was a better painter...