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Since then, Seagram has been deluged with proposals about how to spend its $3 billion. "We get a lot of calls from crackpots with ideas, though only a few friends get through to me," Bronfman told TIME Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer last week. One intrepid inventor, for example, suggested that some of the money be given to him to pay for marketing a method for freeze-dried taxidermy. A real estate firm offered Bronfman New York City's World Trade Center, which may be placed on the market for $1.1 billion...
...hitter in 1980), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy and Rightfielder Tony Armas, is considered the finest young group in the game. Oakland's youthful pitchers led the majors in complete games last year, and Norris (22 wins and nine losses) was runner-up in the Cy Young balloting. If the inventor of Billyball seems outwardly mellow, he has lost none of his fiery will to win. Says Martin: "Everybody tells you, 'Be a good loser.' If that's the case, why do they keep score?" -By B.J. Phillips
Then too there was kinship with the suffering, with Jim Bra dy, especially; old Brady "the Bear," Brady the joker, the poker-faced inventor of Goat Gap Texas Chili and Captain Brady's Nightie Night, who wasn't kidding when he described his new position as "the toughest p.r. job in the world." And kinship with life, with Sarah Brady holding her husband's hand, waiting for the squeeze to be returned...
...Inventor Knut Bjorn-Larsen might not have hollered "Eureka!" when he developed a garterless girdle back in 1965. But Bjorn-Larsen, 58, of Carpinteria, Calif., would be readily excused if he hollered himself hoarse last week. The reason: in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, a federal judge ordered Munsingwear Inc. of Minneapolis to pay Bjorn-Larsen $31 million in damages for fraud and patent infringement...
...measure, Büvös Kocka is the hottest number to come out of Budapest since the Gabor girls went West. Büvös Kocka means Magic Cube, but out side Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Ernö Rubik...