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...revealed, among other things, that Mickey Mantle shunned giving autographs to kids and professional ballplayers were not the boy scouts they made themselves out to be. The book became a best seller, but Bouton was condemned by his peers. After retiring in 1970, he became a TV sportscaster and entrepreneur, creating Big League Chew bubble gum. Currently working on two baseball-related screenplays and a musical version of Ball Four, Bouton still pitches in an amateur league...
...shops were boarded up. Despite a building boom in the rest of the Times Square area, 42nd Street's caretakers were having a hard time interesting new tenants because a figurative stench still lingered. Of the few serious inquiries about the old theaters, one came from a mud-wrestling entrepreneur, another from Michael Eisner. Disney's chairman became interested in owning a theater in New York because the company's theatrical version of Beauty and the Beast was imminent on Broadway. As it happens, the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who had devised post-Johnson-Burgee guidelines for 42nd Street...
...fund raiser Pauline Kanchanalak, and San Kin Yip Group of Macau, a business partner of fund-raiser Charlie Trie. Like Lippo, both companies are owned by ethnic Chinese and have ties to Beijing officials. Federal investigators are also looking into the business practices of Johnny Chung, the Chinese-American entrepreneur who gave the Democrats $366,000 during a period in which he helped raise about $1.5 million from foreign investors...
...administration also should have looked more closely at the motives of Johnny Chung, a California entrepreneur with ties to China who has donated approximately $300,000 to the Democratic party in the past two years, and has visited the White House on at least 50 separate occasions. In one of those visits (which, coincidentally, was in the same week that he donated $50,000 to the party), he escorted Chinese government officials to watch the President's weekly radio address to the public...
Trie, Seng's business partner, is an Arkansas restaurateur and longtime friend of Clinton who is believed to be the DNC contact who brought Wang Jun, a Chinese entrepreneur and the head of a military-owned arms company, to a coffee klatch for political donors hosted by Clinton...