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During the war, Heilbrun flew 32 combat missions. Leahr flew 132 missions as a Tuskegee airman, a member of the all-black fighter group trained at the Tuskegee Institute and Tuskegee Air Field in Alabama...
Beller, who is writing a biography on playwright and screenwriter Robert Sherwood, flew out from Los Angeles to come to the meeting...
...England temperatures continued to drop last week, men’s tennis co-captain David Lingman flew South—to the Champions Club of Chattanooga, Tenn.—looking for victory in the ITA All-American Championship...
...cheap. Men's Wearhouse spent $1.8 million on 39 Christmas parties last year and flew either Zimmer or another exec to each of them. When it's time to make a new batch of TV commercials, the company sends a few dozen employees to Los Angeles, puts them up at a Beverly Hills hotel and ferries them around town in limousines so they can be the stars in the commercials. Nepotism is encouraged; the rationale is that if the company hires friends and relatives, everyone will be more likely to get along. Once or twice a year, store managers...
Which is why Zimmer is willing to spend big bucks on Christmas parties and retreats and an extra $100 here or there to make his employees happy. Last year the company even flew employees and their spouses from Oklahoma City, Okla., to a party in Kansas City, Mo., because their store was too small to have its own. "We closed the store, flew up there and stayed in a nice hotel," says Dan Johnston, the Oklahoma City store manager. "Amazing they did that." Sure, it cost a few bucks, but guess what? For weeks after that party, sales of suits...