Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Congratulations on your superb report on the giants who laid the foundation for America's spectacular growth. But there was a major oversight: Henry J. Kaiser, road builder; steel, aluminum and magnesium producer; creator of jobs running into the millions; and finally, but not least, founder of Kaiser Permanente, America's largest and most successful health-care program. ALBERT P. HEINER Walnut Creek, Calif...
Steve Kirsch is the first to admit it. He is too damn rich. "I can't spend all my money," he sighs. "The best things in life just aren't that expensive." At 41, the founder of the Internet search-service Infoseek is worth more than $137 million. But while many of the other fresh-faced moguls in Silicon Valley have plowed their outrageous fortunes into still more outrageous indulgences, Kirsch decided in 1992 to do something subversive: he created his own charitable fund...
Harvard does not provide enough moral guidance for its students, according to Martin Wishnatsky '66, founder of Good Morals, an organization promoting sexual purity and faith...
...part kid. The kid, recently turned 49, is the same one who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N.Y., under the joint tutelage of a mother interested in the natural world, and Tarzan; Mittermeier continues to collect Tarzan novels and memorabilia. He and Peter A. Seligmann, CI's founder and chief executive, have gained an enormous amount of money, respect and attention for their 11-year-old organization, based in Washington. When Mittermeier is in barker mode, he makes the brashest p.r. rep seem shy; a good portion of our week together in Suriname has been devoted...
...perfect world, a review of Kalman's collected designs would consist of some single image, possibly offensive, definitely shocking, arguably beautiful. The founder of the quintessentially '80s design firm M&Co. and the editor of Benetton's Colors magazine, Kalman has created visuals that, whether pretentious or prophetic, snatch and hold the attention. Witness his "photos" of a black Queen Elizabeth II and of Ronald Reagan with AIDS. The only downside to this provocative catalog is that little in it is new, and Kalman's work relies on surprise. But there are worse ways to spend time than...