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After finishing law school, Bennett found another mentor in Charles Frankel, a Columbia philosophy professor who became president of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and hired Bennett as his executive director. One spring morning in 1979, Bennett arrived for an overnight visit with Frankel and his wife at their mansion in Bedford Hills, New York, but he hadn't even unpacked his bags before he was called away on urgent business. That night, the Frankels were murdered by burglars, who were caught and found to have been high on amphetamines...
...translating the look commercially, designer Ady Gluck-Frankel of Necessary Objects shows how fast the market can react, both to a source of inspiration and to the latest fashion fads. In a collection priced from $30 to $60, she goes with the runway news of just a month or two ago: vinyl; witchy holographic effects; leopard patterns; hot citrus limes, lemons and orange, the season's primary colors; and faux-naive flower prints--Liberty as interpreted by Prada...
Says Bloomingdale's fashion director Kalman Ruttenstein, who dreamed up the scheme: "You put these hot trends together." But Gluck-Frankel disagrees. "You don't put anything together or try to match things. That's the downtown feel." Oddly, they are both right. Sighs Ruttenstein: "No one young wears head-to-toe anything anymore...
...franchise success. A ball club needs not only gate receipts and a good media contract but also steady revenue from stadium advertising, sweetheart concession deals and, especially, luxury boxes. "Luxury boxes are critical these days," says Craig Simon, director of sports marketing for the Chicago consulting firm of Frankel & Co. "A stadium that doesn't have them is in danger of losing its team...
...Wait," he asked, "so you're in reading period right now?" Frankel grinned, "What are you doing here? You should get back and start studying...