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Del Rosario's grandfather founded Manila's first Western-style undertaking parlor. Little interested in burying as a career, Del Rosario joined IBM-Philippines after college, eventually became the IBM subsidiary's vice president and general manager. By 1951 he had decided that business machines "did not...
In 1953 Yankee Co-Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb mustered votes to block Veeck's attempts to move his foundering St. Louis franchise to Baltimore-a town the Browns eventually wound up in after Veeck had been forced to sell out. "Topping was nothing if not frank," relates...
Who's That? That the talent-laden Dodgers sat atop the National League astonished no one. But the Angels were the shock of the year. They did not even exist until last season, when Cowboy-Singer Gene Autry (himself a Dodger fan) forked over $2,150,000 for a...
Another vital G.M. legacy from the Sloan era is G.M.'s overriding emphasis on a strong, healthily prosperous dealer organization. Sloan picked his dealers carefully, watched over their accounting methods, and saw to it that they were all geographically spaced to divide the market properly. After the 1955 auto...
Because Greyhound had a virtual monopoly of existing long-haul interstate routes and the ICC was unwilling to franchise new ones, Moore was obliged to build up his system by buying small local bus lines in a careful pattern that linked them into new long-haul routes. Octopus-like, Continental...