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Harvard holds a 12-7 edge in the hardwood rivalry between the two schools...
...spike heel has made its mark on the U.S. ever since it speared its way into fashion, leaving behind a trail of dented vinyl, punctured Persian rug and pockmarked hardwood. But spike wearers complain that they are forever getting mired in asphalt, countersunk on lawns, trapped on escalator steps and sidewalk gratings. Now comes Heeleze, plastic disks that are to spike heels what snowshoes are to the boot. Heeleze are about an inch overall in diameter, now come in one size but will soon come in three, designed to fit most heels, and are being distributed initially by caterers...
While Financial Whiz Kid Edward M. Gilbert, 38, pondered his sudden flunkout in extradition-proof Brazil, a posse of creditors tried to corral what was left of the fortune he supposedly amassed as president of the E. L. Bruce hardwood flooring firm. All they got was splinters. The Government hit him with a $3,464,472 tax lien, but there was no cash in his bank accounts. Bruce thought it had a lock on the goodies in his Fifth Avenue flat, but aside from the underwear, not much had been paid for. Most of his $524,635 art collection...
Eddy Gilbert was always fond of telling people what great things he could do, and sometimes he did them. As a brash, icy-eyed youngster of 24. he decided he wanted control of Memphis' E.L. Bruce Co., a leading manufacturer of hardwood products. Ten years later, in 1958, he won control of the company after a go-for-broke battle that established him as one of Wall Street's boy wonders. Eddy, who once showed up at a costume party as Napoleon, assured friends that this was only the beginning. He intended, he said, to use Bruce...
Persuading Papa. Eddy Gilbert (né Ginsberg) was a plunger. At 27, angered by his father's refusal to make him a director of the family-controlled Empire Millwork Corp., he quit the company and started his own hardwood flooring business. Whithin four years he could point to annual sales of $250,000, and persuaded papa to buy him out for 20,000 shares of Empire stock. Then, armed with his stake and an Empire directorship, he began to move in on E.L. Bruce...