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Died. George Preston Marshall, 72, owner of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to...
Part of his franchise was to see his master in the most majestic terms, and Bonaparte Visiting the Pest-Ridden of Jaffa, showing the conqueror touching the sores of a hapless victim of the plague, was clearly intended to portray Napoleon as the modern hero sans pareil. But the picture...
In 1962, Congress gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a franchise to rule on the efficacy as well as the safety of all new drugs offered for licensing. The lawmakers also invited the FDA to tackle a forbidding and involved cleanup job. From 1938 to 1962, some 7,000...
Customers obviously enjoy buying Mutual of New York policies from former Boston Celtics Ace K. C. Jones, now head basketball coach at Brandeis University; he has earned membership in the insurance industry's "Million-Dollar Round Table." Maury Wills, the Dodgers' speedy shortstop, does a brisk business at...
Black athletes are capitalizing on their star value in the fast-growing field of franchising. Wilt Chamberlain has a Diners Fugazy Travel franchise in Los Angeles, and Lou Brock holds a Dodge dealership in East St. Louis. Retired Celtics Forward Willie Naulls, who now lives in Los Angeles, has a...