Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president and principal owner of the real estate firm of Helmsley-Spear Inc., he manages properties worth $1.5 billion by his own estimate. He also controls two rival Manhattan realty companies and personally shares in the ownership of dozens of profitable buildings, many of them operated by his own firms. Among his holdings: the Empire State Building, still the world's tallest, two high-rent Beverly Hills apartments, Brooklyn's industrial Bush Terminal and Manhattan's St. Moritz and Carlton House hotels...
They also hired Urban Planning Aidan independent Cambridge planning firm which numbers several Harvard faculty and students among its members---to give them technical planning asistance and two community legal service groups to provide legal advice...
Personal ties link the partners of Brown Brothers with both the Union Pacific Railroad and the Sun Valley resort. U.S. Ambassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman, now a limited partner in the firm, was chairman between 1932 and 1946 of the railroad his father once ran. U.P.'s present chairman, E. Roland Harriman, Averell's brother, is a partner in the bank. As for Sun Valley, Averell Harriman started it 32 years ago as one of the U.S.'s first major ski resorts. (The railroad sold...
Died. Chester Carlson, 62, inventor of xerography, the dry-copying process that changed the routine in countless offices; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1934, Carlson, a physicist in a New York electrical firm, became so frustrated over the lack of copies of documents that he decided to do something about it. He worked four years to develop an electrostatic copying process, which has since become Xerox, an $800 million-a-year firm whose growth gave Carlson a fortune estimated at more than $150 million...
...fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed & Ward). When he was nine, his family moved to Torresdale, Pa., a town not unlike the setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding the literary atmosphere at home oppressive," he plunged passionately into sports. The only trouble was that in lonely Torresdale, ''there was no one to play with...