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Part 2: Franchise shifts: Where did the following originate?
He returns to Paris, wonders whether to call Franchise (Frangoise Fabian), who has been waiting for him, and instead goes to her apartment. He hides when he hears someone else coming in −another man. Simon sneaks out. Much of the rest of the film is a reconstruction of how...
In the flashbacks, Simon plans an elaborate scheme to burgle the Riviera branch of Van Cleef & Arpels; Frangoise, an antique dealer, thinks him a businessman but suspects otherwise. Her suspicions, and her attraction to Simon's unpretentiousness, prove seductive. When he is caught in the back room of Van...
"I'm not throwing in the towel," protested Raymond Kroc, 71, the franchise mastermind who created the McDonald's hamburger empire. "But Fred," he added, "is like a son who grows up and is ready to take over." His reference was to Frederick Turner, 40, who last week...
Turner, a sandy-haired lowan, started out in 1956 as a short-order cook, frying burgers at Ray Kroc's first McDonald's restaurant outside Chicago. Kroc then tapped him to keep an eye on new restaurants; he rose so rapidly that he never had time to claim...