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...multimillion-dollar business cannot be run on fun and flowers, the Beatles be latedly discovered after the death in 1967 of their canny manager and mentor, Brian Epstein. More interested in gadding about than tending to their enterprises, they left their convoluted corporate empire (see chart) to run on its own momentum. Inertia was not a successful philosophy. Three of the biggest companies in which the Beatles hold stakes have lately tumbled into trouble...
...minute in her life. Even as a child, says her brother Jim, her emotional makeup was "total reaction. The only time she rested, she rested from exhaustion." She was born in Chicago, the sixth of seven children (three boys, four girls). After her father moved his business, the multimillion-dollar Great Lakes Carbon Corp., to New York, the family lived briefly in suburban Larchmont and then on a 16-acre estate in Greenwich, Conn...
...worth. "I'm convinced the Block isn't that much of an entertainment value for the city," he says. "I really think it has become an obsolete, tawdry thing of the past." Reich is planning to eliminate the Block within 10 years, replacing it with a multimillion-dollar inner-harbor redevelopment project, including a community college, a shopping mall, and municipal and commercial office buildings. Meanwhile, one whole block of seamy establishments has already been razed to make way for, of all things, a new $11 million police headquarters...
...Multimillion Call. At Pan Am, Chair man Harold Gray and President Najeeb Halaby were rather chagrined to discover that Resorts had a call on al most 10% of the airline's common stock and could fairly easily become the largest shareholder. Looking into Resorts, they found that it was largely a family affair run by Crosby, 41, and some of his relatives. Crosby in 1958 had taken over the Mary Carter Paint Co. ("Buy One-Get One Free"); he later bought most of Huntington Hartford's interests on Paradise Island and sold the paint-making part...
...been brought out by Menley & James, a subsidiary of Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Love was in splashy four-page ads in almost every leading woman's magazine (Vogue, Redbook, Cosmopolitan) and in regional editions of LIFE. At a time when advertising is bolder and nuder than ever, the multimillion-dollar campaign leaves little to the imagination...