Word: kroc
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...changing my name to McStamberg." SUSAN STAMBERG, National Public Radio correspondent, on a $200 million bequest to the nonprofit broadcasting corporation from Joan Kroc, widow of the longtime chairman of McDonald...
DIED. JOAN KROC, 75, a railroad worker's daughter who became a philanthropist known for her generous, often anonymous donations to causes ranging from youth programs to famine relief; of brain cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The widow of McDonald's owner Ray Kroc, she took control of baseball's San Diego Padres after his death in 1984 (when they won the National League pennant) and ran the team for six years...
...love late bloomers. Knowing that Grandma Moses first picked up a paintbrush at 76 or that Ray Kroc launched the world's largest fast-food chain at 52 plants tiny seeds of hope in each of us ordinary mortals that we may one day burst into flower too. And if experts are correct, we may just have a chance. Life expectancy has increased some 30 years during the past century, and much of that time, it seems, has been added not to the end of our life but to the middle, extending the time we live as healthy, active adults...