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...antihandgun sentiment in Morton Grove was latent until an entrepreneur announced last spring that he was opening a gun shop in town. That prospect galvanized the trustees. "I'm just against guns," says Sneider. "It's a deep conviction of mine." Says fellow Village Trustee Neil Cashman, who wrote the law against possession: "I was sick and tired of reading about handgun deaths." Three years ago, a pair of local teenage girls were murdered in a Morton Grove woods, both shot to death with a handgun...
Rarely is a practicing journalist acquainted with all of the principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side...
With all the new snow on the ground, wouldn't you rather be skiing? Rumor has it that the Harvard Entrepreneur Club is considering chartering a bus to escort students in Fine Arts 175a direct from their final on Friday afternoon to the slopes in Vermont. Night skiing, anyone...
Stevenson's professional experience as an entrepreneur in the area of real estate investment and development also made Stevenson particularly qualified for this post, Donaldson said. "This is one area where extensive professional experience in small business is particularly helpful," he added...
DIED. Walter Knott, 91, entrepreneur who converted a California roadside fruit stand into Knott's Berry Farm, a multimillion-dollar enterprise; in Buena Park, Calif. Knott, who once marketed jellies and jams and expanded into fried-chicken dinners, opened Knott's Berry Farm in 1940. The family-owned operation now includes an amusement park, which draws more than 5 million visitors a year, a number exceeded only by the Disney theme parks in Florida and California...