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DIED. BOB WEINSTOCK, 77, jazz producer who, at age 20, parlayed a family loan into an indie label that became Prestige, home to some of jazz's greatest musicians; in Boca Raton, Fla. He encouraged his artists to record long, unrehearsed jams. Among the results: the 1956 John Coltrane-- Sonny Rollins saxophone duet Tenor Madness and the seminal four-album series Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin...
...ripest later role was as herself: a tell-all memoirist and rowdy talk-show guest who was still entertaining audiences by exasperating men. DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1997 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose vodka--with its frosted bottle, Cézanne-inspired label and $30-a-bottle price tag--and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in a more rambunctious market--college students--and began importing the near unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With...
...like sexing a chicken. Is it fiction, is it nonfiction? I think the entire book is horse dookie. This guy has done for memoirs what Jayson Blair [the New York Times reporter who fabricated interviews] did for reporters. What would it have cost him to stick a label of fiction...
...DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1999 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose vodka?with its frosted bottle, C?zanne-inspired label and $30-per-bottle price tag?and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego, California. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in the rambunctious U.S. college-student market and began importing the near-unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With the help of a cadre of pretty "Jagerettes," who poured free shots in bars, the brand soared in sales from some 500 cases...
...This shared experience often eliminated the pressure and fatigue of being an object of curiosity. Joshua Miller says that, among Harvard students, he is “always introduced as that kid from Tulane…sometimes you just want to be a normal student, without any special label.†“You get asked the same questions over and over,†he adds. “It gets really tiring after a while.â€Many Tulane students say they found that Harvard’s social life and late night scene were...