Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Roger Wheeler, 55, multimillionaire entrepreneur in oil, minerals, real estate and sporting ventures, also chairman and largest stockholder of the Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based computer and electronics firm with 1980 revenues of $186.5 million; of a gunshot to the head, fired at point-blank range by an unknown assailant, as he got into his car after a regular weekly golf game; in Tulsa. The owner of World Jai Alai in Miami and former owner of Hartford (Conn.) Jai Alai, Wheeler had testified publicly about alleged underworld involvement in the sport...
...real-estate entrepreneur will leave in his will at least $3 million to the Harvard Divinity School...
...chance for the big bucks comes when a wily Chicago entrepreneur (Humbert Allen Astredo) offers the trio a deal to build a cotton mill if the Hubbards will share the costs. The hitch is that Regina's share lies in the bank vault of her husband Horace (Tom Aldredge), who is precariously ill in a Baltimore hospital. He loathes the Hubbards for their vulpine avarice and has long been estranged from Regina. She sends the daughter (Ann Talman), whom Horace loves, to haul him back, and proceeds to cajole and curse him, but Horace is adamant...
DIED. Jules Stein, 85, ophthalmologist turned show business entrepreneur who as the founder and president of the Music Corporation of America guided its growth from a small band-booking agency into a billion-dollar entertainment empire; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Stein, who helped pay his way through medical school by playing violin and saxophone, started MCA in 1924 and eventually abandoned his medical career to lead the company's expansion during the 1930s and '40s into a national booking service for top bands and Hollywood stars. MCA became known as the "octopus" for its extensive...
When Sir James Goldsmith launched his weekly newsmagazine Now! 19 months ago, he gave it a rousing sendoff. The pugnacious French-British entrepreneur spent more than $ 1 million on promotion, and the initial pressrun of 416,000 copies was a sellout. With the London Sunday Times and its glossy magazine shut down by a labor dispute, upscale advertisers flocked to the new publication. Start-up costs were high ($5.4 million), but the brash publisher was undeterred. Said Sir James: "If it has the feeling of life in it, I will keep it going, even with losses...