Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bygone ads beside their new ones (at $3,000 per black-and-white page). The first issues will have a press run of 400,000 copies, and include, among others, the Gandhi and Garbo stories. Chief resuscitator of the magazine is Robert Whiteman, 45, a soft-spoken entrepreneur who once sold Liberty door-to-door in Savannah, Ga., and purchased the remnants in 1965. Into the bargain went 1,387 covers and some 17,000 pieces of editorial material, enough, Whiteman figures, "to last us 100 years, even if we go monthly...
...example, a young entrepreneur, John Settle, has established the Abortion Information Agency. Through AIA. a woman may arrange an early (up to 12 weeks) abortion for $285. The hospitals and doctors using AIA bill Settle for $175. The $110 difference is income for the agency. "With over 100 referrals a day, a forty person staff, and 15 telephone lines, Settle is grossing at least $70,000 a week...
...well groomed aristocrats. This leads to some of the worst and the best moments of the evening. The worst: Phil Gabrielli is competent but ridiculous as suave Jewish gambler Nick Arristein. He plays him like Cyril Ritchard dipping his pinky finger into something icky. John Cook as theatrical entrepreneur Flo Ziegfeld tries hard but is equally unlikely. The best: a Ziegfeld production number called "His Love Makes Me Beautiful." Eight deadpanning preppies running around with sequined mirrors create an infinitely better satire of a Follies extravaganza than a hundred would-be Eddie Cantors-the Busby Berkeley approach taken...
...Critic-"Conceiver" Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!), Entrepreneur Hugh Hefner (Playboy), and Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) collaborate to make a movie, what will its title be? Macbeth! Shooting is scheduled to start in northern Wales next week with a script by Polanski, Tynan and Shakespeare, and a cast of unknowns, young enough to make the Weird Sisters not too unattractive with their clothes...
...Harvard coach John Yovicsin was making his first appearance before the masses Saturday afternoon, and Bill Veeck, who had once offered Yovicsin the chance to earn a little money in his spare time, was interested in letting him know that Suffolk Downs still cared for him. Veeck, a sports entrepreneur who has contributed such diversions as the exploding scoreboard to American society, had hired two single-engine planes to fly over the Stadium bearing long streamers with messages to Yovicsin as well as to the fans...