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...textile importer, Kimelman got into the liquor business through his father-in-law, who owned a rum distillery in Puerto Rico. Kimelman moved to St. Thomas after investing in the islands' earliest first-class resort hotel, the Virgin Isle, which he later leased on hugely favorable terms to Hilton. Kimelman and his brother-in-law acquired the distributorships of a number of name-brand liquors, including Cherry Heering, Grand Marnier and J & B Scotch. When the Johnson Administration tried to ease the nation's balance of payments deficit by chopping, from a gallon to a quart, the nontaxable...
...Word. Not without egotism, Kimelman says, "I enjoy achievement." His unceasing drive soured many personal relationships, including those with his brother-in-law, who dropped out of the business, and with former Governor Ralph M. Paiewonsky, who accepted his resignation from the commerce commission. But Kimelman caught the SAMMA fancy of Stewart Udall, then the Interior Secretary, who hired him as his aide. In Washington, Kimelman became friends with McGovern, whom he admired for his antiwar stand. McGovern and his supporters have been frequent guests at the Kimelman home overlooking the Charlotte Amalie harbor. (Campaign Managers Frank Mankiewicz and Gary...
...group was celebrating McGovern's 47th birthday at the Kimelman home in 1969 when they got word of Teddy Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident...
...Kimelman tells it, he immediately urged McGovern to run for the '72 nomination and promised...
...finance chairman, Kimelman specialized in putting the arm on big contributors for McGovern's primary battles, raising some $2.5 million, including $80,000 of his own funds. He is also the organization's budget director and became known to McGovern staffers as a tight-fisted spender. "I'm a good clamper-downer," says Kimelman. "I have a lot of one-word answers: No." Among others who bridled at Kimelman's autocratic ways was Max Palevsky, a Xerox millionaire and prime McGovern contributor. Recently he pulled out of the candidate's organization, partly over differences with...