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Ever since he was young, Carlson has shown a colorful blend of salesmanship and independence. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1937, he took an $85-a-month job as a soap salesman, but the entrepreneurial spirit moved him in 1938 to ask his landlord for a deferral of a month's rent. With this $55 he started the Gold Bond Stamp Co. He quit his job and began selling the stamps to neighborhood grocers until 1952, then advanced to supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps...
Sally H. Zeckhauser, president of the Harvard Real Estate Corp., said yesterday the University paints the exterior of every single family home it owns every five to eight years "just like any landlord...
...tenants must now notify the University when someone moves out or in. The University must also approve new tenants. "It's a normal landlord-tenant relationship," Wade said, adding the University will check potential tenants' credit and personal references...
...took 50 years for the Irish to wrest control from the Yankees in this city. Now you're trying to hand it right back," Councilor Alfred E. Velucci told Richard Fraiman, head of a landlord organization...
...facility is 15 per cent larger, the rent is much less, and we like having Harvard as our landlord," David Cohen '80, new president of HSA, said yesterday...