Word: founder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Founder of Weight Watchers Inc. is Jean Nidetch, 43, a New York City housewife who in 1963 weighed 214 lbs., but still found herself cheating on her reducing diet. She invited six fat friends over to talk about it, came out of the gathering convinced that group therapy was the answer. She has since slimmed down to 142 lbs. (her husband Marty has gone from 265 lbs. to 196 lbs.), and she estimates that 500,000 members in 16 states have lost more than 10 million lbs. since she established Weight Watchers...
...some 3.5 billion lbs. a year (better than 18 Ibs. a person), have made candy a $1.5 billion-a-year industry. To tap that kind of volume profitably, Kansas City-based Russell Stover Candies had to overcome a history of financial fitfulness that began with the company's founder...
Lincoln's CIA. White tie is a far cry from the original force. Founder Allan Pinkerton, who was Chicago's first police-force detective, went into the private-eye business on his own in 1850. Later he organized a kind of CIA for Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton unearthed one assassination plot against Lincoln, spirited the President-elect to Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent...
...below. By day's end, the trawler's tanks were crawling with 6,624 lbs. of Alaskan king crab, which were promptly delivered to a Wakefield Seafoods, Inc., processing plant. Such pickings, by Kathy C. and a fleet of 40 other crabbers, have made Wakefield's founder, Lowell Wakefield, the leader of the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. fishing industry...
...teen-agers have enrolled in Encounter's program, and a dozen have already stopped taking drugs altogether. "We keep up the pressure," explains Brendan Sexton, 21, Lynn's husband and the third founder. "Our advantage is that we have been down that road too. We can say to them, 'Look, here we are, and believe it or not, it does pay off to face these problems.' Happiness is a big thing with these kids, and we tell them and show them that they can be happier without drugs...