Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, stated Lodge, that Roosevelt gave up the idea of naturalism as a career, and where his "interest in people and a sense of public service turned him to political life...
...adolescence. Groton and Harvard, emerging a 5 ft. 9 in., 245-Ib. magna cum laude dandy addicted to French cuffs and French pastry, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the decay of ancient civilizations-Egypt, the Mayans, Greece and Rome. By then it was clear that Joe had no real interest in the law, which was the career his parents had decided on, and he was dispatched to the New York Herald Tribune...
...Siegel and Coleman joined forces in Philadelphia while Siegel (a Lehigh journalism graduate) was commuting to a small job with a Manhattan TV film firm, and Coleman (Harvard, '48) was attending the University of Pennsylvania law school. They bought a stake in a soft drink company, swapped their interest for a Cleveland chemical company, whose earnings they doubled in ten months. Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage...
Coleman and Siegel also got heavy debts at high interest rates. To climb out, Coleman negotiated a swap with the See-burgs of $1,200,000 in cash for the $2,000,000 owed in notes, borrowed another $700,000 from them. Siegel raised more from Philadelphia's Donner Foundation and the New York Water Corp. In addition, they sold off their Fort Pitt clothing and beer business for $3,000,000 plus a hefty beer royalty from the new brewery owners. With Seeburg's cash position in shape, they were able to pay off their bank debts...
Last month the great Monopoly game ended. Coleman and Siegel retired nearly all their high interest debts by negotiating with Chicago's First National Bank a single $3,150,000 loan that runs for five years at 5%. "For two years we'd been putting our fingers in the dike, first here, then there," says Siegel. "What a relief...