Word: mason
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When Hendricks committed to Harvard, the Crimson was coming off three straight Ivy titles and was a year removed from a No. 24 national ranking. Harvard had become one of the top baseball programs above the Mason-Dixon line, and Crimson coach Joe Walsh was using that to bring in talent. And besides, Harvard is Harvard...
Fortnum & Mason is only the most elegant arm of this family's LONDON-based firm, which started out selling sliced bread...
...that invented sliced bread. The founder of their retail business was a Canadian emigre, Garfield Weston, who created individually packaged loaves. His son Garry built publicly traded Associated British Foods (ABF) during the postwar years and acquired dozens of assets, including British Sugar and the luxury London store Fortnum & Mason. During Garry's 33 years at the helm, ABF's value soared by a factor of 30, and it is currently the biggest family-controlled company on the London Stock Exchange, with annual sales of $7 billion...
...Weston installed the firm's first top manager from outside the family. But each of Garry's six children is involved in the firm. Guy, 42, the eldest son, runs the holding company, Wittington Investments, which owns 54.5% of ABF. In 2001, Wittington bought back the 10% of Fortnum & Mason that it didn't already own. The second son, George (it's a family tradition for sons to be given names starting with G), 39, is deputy chairman of ABF, and Garth, 34, is chief of the company's Ryvita crispbread subsidiary. Two daughters, Jana, 41, and Cate, 40, work...
...most notorious crimes, the 1957 murders of two El Segundo policemen. Just before Christmas, LA detectives dusted off the case file and, for the first time, ran a single print left by the killer against the FBI database. To their astonishment, out came the name of Gerald F. Mason, a respected 68-year-old retired businessman living in Columbia, S.C. He was never one of the several hundred suspects in the case; his print dated from a 1956 South Carolina burglary arrest. Mason was handcuffed Jan. 29 on a Columbia golf course...