Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long night. So great was the demand that Ajello's candle shop in midtown sold fancy bayberry models at $7.50 a pair?though there were no takers for the 90-lb., hand-dipped model for $150. To make the occasion complete, Mrs. Anthony Ajello, wife of the candlestick maker, had a baby boy in the midst of the blackout?by candlelight, of course...
Died. Roy August Fruehauf, 57, president and then chairman of Fruehauf Corp., world's largest maker of truck trailers (1964 sales: $313 million) founded by his father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident...
...call attention to the progress of a new management team, France's Bull-General Electric, the giant computer maker, last week arranged a rolling press conference aboard a special Paris-Angers train, brought along President Henri Desbrueres, who answered questions while pretty hostesses plied 93 reporters with smoked salmon, pheasant and wine. Seeking publicity for the Lido nightclub, flamboyant French P.R. Man Georges Cravenne last year invited a chic crowd to an otherwise ordinary première, asked the women to wear evening pajamas...
Louis van Gasteren, Dutch film-maker, will show prize-winners from the Vancouver Film Festival and speak on films at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Carpenter Lecture Hall...
...executives as rapidly as he bought up companies. He persuaded Houston's John Duncan, a coffee dealer whom he had met in the commodities trade, to sell out his personal holdings and invest $112,000 in G. & W. Next he induced David Judelson, a New Jersey machine-tool maker whom he had met on a vacation at Lake Champlain, N.Y., to put up another $50,000. Today Duncan, at 37, is G. & W.'s president and day-to-day administrator; Judelson, 36, is executive-committee chairman and production chief. Bluhdorn is the creator of new mergers and markets...