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...Karp, also 39, will agree to make a multimillion dollar acquisition between handball games or during an after-lunch ten-mile walk-and-talk session. Out of this unorthodox exercise of brains and brawn has evolved an impressive track record in business. Since they took over Monogram six years ago, the two have sent sales hurtling from $6,000,000 to a current annual rate of more than $100 million. Three years ago, Monogram stock was selling at $4 a share...
Other contributors to the Saturday Review discussion include Arnold Gingrich, publisher of Esquire, and Irwin Karp, legal representative for the Authors' League of America...
Batteries--McRobbie, Russell (6), Osofsky (9) and Karp; Melfa, McLandish and Miller...
Pondering Pilasters. To get away with their bulky booty, Karp and his crew have suffered four hernias, wrecked three cars, and paid thousands of dollars to demolition men. "We've got to negotiate with them," says Karp. "They're a rather cynical race, and the whole building would be destroyed if we didn't bargain with them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered...
...least Karp is doing something about the shame. The Brooklyn Museum is readying an acre for Karp's relics, to be called the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden. Due to be opened next year, the sanctuary will have antique lampposts lighting the paths, and wistful wanderers will be able to sit on filigree benches and ponder the pilasters of the past. It is just possible that before the project is completed it may include a machine-tooled, I-beam mullion from the first of the glass-and-steel box buildings acetylene-torched out of existence...