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DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, flashy, homespun cosmetics executive who helped push Mary Kay Inc. to sales of more than $1.2 billion last year; of natural causes; in Dallas. She started her company in 1963 with $5,000, after her male assistant at a direct-sales company was promoted at twice her salary. "I couldn't believe God meant a woman's brain to bring 50[cents] on the dollar," she said. Famously generous, Ash rewarded her loyal sales force of 40,000 with minks, diamonds and her trademark pink Cadillacs...
...ever: Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Koufax and Mathewson. The effect is stirring; unfortunately, U.S. baseball's racist past has been underplayed. It is as if we were reading a fine authorized biography, solid in many respects but edited by the subject, in this case Major League Baseball, Inc...
...Racism exploded again when Baseball Inc. decided to solemnly mark the 40th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut. Ted Koppel invited me and the late Al Campanis, then Dodger general manager, to appear on his popular network program Nightline. Robinson died in 1972, but Koppel asked me what he might think about the state of blacks in baseball during 1987. I said Robinson would be appalled that there was not a single black manager in the major leagues. Koppel said to Campanis, who was sitting in a Houston ball park, "Is Mr. Kahn's statement true...
...Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" by Peter L. Bergen...
Earlier this year, Rock Bottom Restaurants Inc. bought out the Brew Moon chain. The company has already converted the Brew Moon at Braintree in North Shore Plaza. Rock Bottom currently owns 86 restaurants nation-wide...