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Three Harvard bands--the Dance Bandits. Jane's Parents and Off the Cuff--as well as a student-run disc-jockey company. Liquid Sound, all provided tree music for the marathon...
Sired by a Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey, McKinney was raised on a horse farm but bred to be a ski racer by her stage mother Frances, who rented a winter house near Squaw Valley, Calif. "I remember wearing baby skis," says Tamara, the youngest and the second most promising of Frances McKinney's seven children, five of whom reached the U.S. ski team. Sheila, 25, the family's particular star, made the team at the unlikely age of twelve. But in 1977 she fell in a downhill run and was unconscious for a month. After relearning...
...number of company founders have claimed paper profits in the tens of millions of dollars. Several have registered gains of $100 million or more, making them, overnight, some of the richest people in the U.S. The winners in the going public game include a Korean immigrant, a former disc jockey, a onetime airplane mechanic, a theater critic-turned-stock analyst, a college dropout, an engineer-turned-stock analyst-turned-financier, and a molecular biologist...
Mitchell Kapor, 33, founder of Lotus Development, a computer software company. A Brooklyn-born math whiz, Kapor graduated from Yale at 20, then dabbled as a disc jockey, an instructor in Transcendental Meditation and a mental-hospital counselor. Little commanded his attention until he impulsively traded in his stereo system for an Apple II computer. Within a few months, he wrote two computer programs that create charts and graphs for businesses and sold them to a software distributor for $1.2 million. With royalties from the programs and backing from venture capitalists, he founded Lotus Development...
Another routine used the overused device of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a theme that has already become a parody of itself. It did have its clever moments, though: in this brave new world, Studio 54 became the Ministry of Fun and a stentorian disc jockey commanded the dancers, "Fellow citizens, do the Pony...