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...that he could persuade his board of directors to accept any such agreement. Then Prudential showed the way. After returning from Asia, Weill called Robinson and opened serious discussions. Over Easter weekend, the two men conducted a traveling talkathon that moved from Weill's 13-room home in Greenwich, Conn., to his seven-room apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to Robinson's nearby residence. When the deal was finally set, it was agreed that Weill would remain boss of Shearson, which for now will continue to be a separate company, and also head American Express...
...person who encouraged him was his bride, Lila Bell Acheson, now 91, the sister of a Macalester classmate. "I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea," she later recalled. They mailed out thousands of subscription appeals just before their wedding. When they returned from their honeymoon to Greenwich Village in Manhattan there were 1,500 responses...
...them, anything could have happened," she says. Ramp emerged from the ordeal unscathed-but $25 poorer: "After watching the whole thing, I felt obliged to buy the shirt." Assistant Picture Editor Sue Considine, who gathered the photos that accompany the cover stories, lost $120 from her pocketbook in a Greenwich Village restaurant. Says she: "Now I know to keep...
...FILM'S FIRST HALF contrives, the second lies and confuses. The most prominent fault lies in the skipping of the 50s, the decade in which blues and r&b spawned rock and roll. Bakshi's chronology jumps from World War II to Greenwich Village poet-beatniks, but misses a beat--the beat...
...live in the 7th arrondissement, the Greenwich Village of Paris, a stone's throw from the Bastille, I'Hotel de Ville, and other unremarkable landmarks. The metro stop is just a block away, so I see only a few cafes and a Chinese restaurant on my first morning out. Somehow it seems strange to see a Chinese restaurant in Paris, but then I think about it. "Wow," I think. "Wow, this city is a meeting place of cultures." For the moment, it escapes me that there is also a Chinese restaurant in Oshkosh, Wise...