Word: makers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case in point revolves around a four-line footnote. It appeared in a Modern Living story (Jan. 5) about a peripatetic, perfectionist omelet maker named Rudolph Stanish. The footnote described his special omelet pan and gave the name of its distributor, Manhattan's Bridge Co. When we began to get an exceptional number of letters and calls from would-be purchasers of the pan, we checked with the company's owner, Fred Bridge...
...Charges. Having won over Rosenstiel with tactics that included a personal investment of $350,000 in the purchase of Rosenstiel's six-story Manhattan town house, Riklis ran into some new obstacles to the $410 million takeover. There were new rumors that P. Lorillard & Co., the big cigarette, maker which had been rebuffed by Rosenstiel in an earlier merger attempt, was renewing its effort. These were reinforced when the Schenley board failed to take any action acknowledging the Riklis...
...been awarded to an enthusiast of abstract expressionism, Muriel Neuman, who picked up her first major De Kooning for $2,000 in 1950, long before most New York collectors were taking the movement seriously. More recently, the nod would have gone to Arnold Maremont, 63, president of Maremont Corp., maker of mufflers and other auto parts. The muffler man's 300-piece collection, valued at $2,000,000, shines throughout his manor house in Winnetka, at corporate headquarters, and in Maremont's Arizona hideaway...
...company was breathing somewhat easier-for the time being. In Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., A.M.C.'s 11,000 auto-production workers voted to accept the new two-year contract agreed on a week before by company and U.A.W. negotiators. The terms were tailor-made for the auto maker's shaky fortunes. During the first year, for example, the average A.M.C. worker will get only a 120 wage increase over the $3.40 an hour he now earns. That represents a marked concession by the auto union, which had won a 200-an-hour first-year hike in last year...
...replaced his brother as team leader. Although he was not as graceful a skater as Bill, Bob developed into a masterful play-maker. During his junior year, he contributed 37 assists and 36 goals as the Crimson swept to a perfect 8-0 record in the Ivy League and a fourth place in the NCAA tournament...