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...other singles matches, John Ingard defeated Mark Jee, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4, while Chap Baird disposed of Steve Merchant, 6-3, 6-2. Charlie Crusan, playing fifth singles in place of the ailing Joe Hone, overcame Bob Bristow, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, and Gary Reiner defeated Desi Dundics...
...come," he once said while discussing the mystery of box-office appeal, "nothing will stop them." Hurok also authored two autobiographies (Impresario, S. Hurok Presents) about a life that began, like those of so many of his artists, in Russia. When he was 16, his father, a hardware merchant in the small Ukrainian village of Pogar, gave him 1,500 rubles and sent him to Kharkov to learn the hardware business. Instead, Sol headed straight for America, arriving with the equivalent of $1.50 in his pocket...
...theme. Those who have read any of Hanley's more than 40 other novels should not be surprised. At 73, he is one of the most consistently praised and least-known novelists in the English-speaking world. Born in Dublin and raised in Liverpool, Hanley became a merchant seaman at age 13, just before World War I. He is self-educated. Over the years he has written his way through any number of literary fashions. Some early sea stories have been compared to Conrad, though they are far less romantic. Hanley has been called a proletarian writer, too, mainly...
Though the judge's outspoken decision is technically only a recommendation, the full NLRB is expected to approve soon, as it has in previous such cases. Company President Willie Farah, 53, then plans to appeal in the courts. Farah, son of a Lebanese dry-goods merchant, had propelled his father's business to record sales of $164 million in 1971 (profits: $6 million) mainly by cutting labor costs through using modern machinery. Last December, in testimony to his hard-driving methods and stubborn resistance to union demands, he was named "Man of the Year" by the trade magazine...
...Merchant of Four Seasons...