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...shoemakers, but his sons Arnold and Leonard began conglomerating in the 1960s. They shifted from leather into plastics and soon became the world's largest manufacturer of above-ground swimming pools. That was a seasonal business, so they bought a snowmobile manufacturer and suffered heavy losses during the mild winter that followed. They admired Atari's pioneering home video game, Pong, and they made a fortune on an imitation named Telstar. But they overinvested in that, lost $22 million in 1978 and nearly went bankrupt. Then they gambled heavily on ColecoVision, which could play both Atari and Mattel...
Derrick Jackson is as mild-mannered and deliberative as sports fanatics come, a far cry from the stereotypical sports writer who hovers over every play of every game...
...loss dropped Harvard's Ivy record to 1-1 and dealt a mild blow to its Ivy hopes. The Crimson had forseen Princeton and Dartmouth--the victim of Harvard's first contest--as its toughest opposition...
Lehman said such "ridiculous" examples of overpricing were "unusual," but announced that the Navy would review the pricing of each of the 2.1 million items in its spare-part inventory. He offered only mild condemnation of those who perpetrated the ripoffs: "We have not found any criminal intent, but the companies should have known the prices were unreasonable." He blamed the overpricing on "clericalization," which he said meant "no single person is responsible for it." The cure, he said, was more competition for contracts...
...high chair and onto the Louis Quinze. He ransacks old collections and ranges through the century, from Stephen Leacock to Fran Lebowitz. Anything that smacks of adolescence is jettisoned: "You will meet with no Dorothy Parker here... I found her comic stories brittle, short on substance." And nothing mild is allowed: to go through Robert Benchley's work is "to discover a good many of his sketches astonishingly bland, disarmingly gentle." The 65 pieces that pass Richler's scrutiny are trenchant, acrimonious and sharp. Most of them are also funny. But they are no more mature than...