Word: leon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leogene Graffteiner is really four pianists: Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin and Jacob Lateiner. The first three are close friends, and all share an extravagant admiration for an ancient Steinway concert grand known as "Old 199." Because they pass it from one to another while touring in the U.S., they refer to its current player by a composite name. Graffman & Co. today are in the forefront of a group of young U.S. pianists who have recently made the perilous leap from prodigy to professional artist...
Hertz will own 51% of the new company's stock, and Hertz Chairman Leon C. Greenebaum, 49, and Hertz President Walter L. Jacobs, 61, will run it. Not only will American Express cash in on the potentially rich market for foreign-car rentals, but the deal also calls for it to invest in Hertz Corp. so that it can participate in domestic profits. Express is buying 25,000 Hertz Corp. common shares at the current market price, has an option to buy 75,000 more over the next four years for no less than...
...York; Leon W. Hoyer of Kirkland House and Windom, Minnesota; John R. Kramer of Lowell House and New York City; Ira M. Lapidus of Adams House and Brooklyn, New York; Kenneth Laurence of Winthrop House and Portland, Maine; Keith M. Lindgren of Winthrop House and Minneapolis, Minnesota...
...this was a tribute to the cultivated taste and shrewd buying of a comparatively little-known French financial wizard who rarely paid over $10,000 for a painting, rarely made a bad buy. Born in Paris plain Leon Georges Levy, he early attracted the attention of the Rothschild family, who started him off as a clerk in the Rothschild bank, used him as a broker for their interests when he went into business for himself. He was soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed...
Operations at the Smithsonian office settled into the daily pattern of frenetic activity that they have followed ever since. The direct teletype line to the Naval Research Laboratory clattered out constant messages back and forth. A special section under Leon Campbell maintained contact with the various Moon-watch teams, receiving their reports, providing them with information, and answering their requests. There was continuous work in the examination and evaluation of reported sightings...