Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Arthur Mayer, 94, Harvard-educated movie maven and entrepreneur who was a leading publicist in Hollywood's early days, then became known in the 1930s as the "Merchant of Menace" for exhibiting lowbudget, moneymaking horror movies at the famous Rialto Theater in New York's Times Square and who also helped import such classic "art" films as Open City (1945), Paisan (1947) and The Bicycle Thief (1948); in New York City...
That unabashed declaration comes from Beate Uhse, 61, whose famed shops have become West Germany's Sears, Roebuck of sex, offering more than 3,500 varieties of love aids, ranging from bawdy books to inflatable mates. Now Europe's leading erotic entrepreneur has her sights set on the estimated $5 billion U.S. pornography market. Uhse's new American subsidiary, Reel Pleasure Unlimited, is distributing a portfolio of hard-core movies to 46 theaters across the U.S. In keeping with her reputation for peddling only top-of-the-line pornography, the initial release, Extremes, is the first...
...time the next Olympics roll around. America's most famous breastroker, already a successful entrepreneur, will be a married...
Krutschewski, who is free on $50,000 bail awaiting an appeal, took the judge's rejection in stride. "I'm sad about his ruling," said the entrepreneur, "but he's got a job to do like anybody else...
Washington, D.C.-based MCI was founded by McGowan, 53, a Harvard Business School-trained entrepreneur who correctly foresaw a market for cheaper long-distance phone service using new microwave technology. In 1972, MCI began selling business clients its telephone service between a few heavy-traffic cities, including New York, St. Louis...