Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pastel Jesus in red-polka-dot robes (a poster version is available for another $1.50). But who is the author, Levi Alphaeus? The introduction says he was a Galilean tax collector who "later adopted the name Matthew." He is better known as St. Matthew the Evangelist. A California entrepreneur named Joseph Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format, big type and plenty of white space, rewrote some passages, and dropped most Old Testament references. The reputable firm of Pocket Books has 100,000 copies of this...
...show will be produced by Hollywood TV Veteran Bob Banner. But the real force behind the show is John Brown, the 38-year-old Louisville entrepreneur who parlayed Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken into a multimillion-dollar fortune. To win party support, Brown has even offered to guarantee two-thirds of the show's $1.5 million cost, in the event that everybody goes to bed early Saturday night. Brown says that his main motive is to save the two-party system by pulling the Democrats out of hock. Beyond that, he admits he has a hankering...
...filled attractions are part of a new biblical amusement park called Holyland. Now abuilding on 225 acres outside Mobile, Ala., the $10 million project is the inspiration of a group of businessmen headed by Alabama Entrepreneur Bill Caywood. Apparently convinced that Moses can outdraw Mickey Mouse, Caywood & Co. are confident that when Holyland opens on Palm Sunday 1973 there will be no room at The Inn, a 300-unit lodge on the park grounds...
Wilson has built this empire in only 20 years, having started out with little more than an idea. A risk-taking entrepreneur in the age of prudent professional managers, he is a visible refutation of the common belief that a self-made man can no longer pile up great wealth in the modern, highly developed capitalist economy. Now Wilson has a personal fortune estimated to exceed $200 million. Three years ago, the Sunday Times of London listed him among the 1,000 most important men of the 20th century, along with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt...
...schooling in both the U.S. and France, wealthy friends, French tax laws and a building boom. He earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard business school in 1968 and then returned to France in hopes of starting his own enterprise. Says Breguet: "A few years ago, a young European entrepreneur would go to the U.S., see what was to be done and stay there to do it. But now you go to the U.S., see what there is to do and come back here to do it better...