Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solemnly wrote down his 1961 New Year's resolution: to make his company a $100 million enterprise within the next five years. Even in Phoenix, whose postwar building boom has been among the nation's liveliest, the resolution was somewhat audacious. But such audacity has made David Murdock, at 38, the biggest builder in Arizona...
Though he has been at it for less than a decade, Murdock has already pieced together real estate holdings worth more than $26 million. In the past two years he has reshaped the Phoenix skyline by throwing up three major office buildings, including the town's tallest-the porcelain blue 20-story Guaranty Bank Building. Now, bent on expanding beyond Arizona, he plans to invest $20 million in baby skyscrapers in Southern California, last week broke ground for a $3,000,000 bank building in Roswell, N. Mex. "Fast as Phoenix is growing," says Murdock, "I can build office...
Befriending the Bank. The son of a traveling salesman, Missouri-born David Murdock quit school in the tenth grade to go to work, was paying his own way even before that. Says he: "I can remember mowing lawns when I was so small I couldn't get both hands up to the lawn-mower handle." After a World War II stint in the Air Force, he drifted into Phoenix with a young wife, a trailer, and a $12,000 stake he had earned running a short-order restaurant in Detroit...
...Murdock, who expects to assume his new duties this summer, will be in residence at I Tatti as director of the study center. A former Master of Leverett House and for five years chairman of the General Education Program, Murdock is a scholar of the history and literature of the 17th Century. Known especially for his studies of the literature of Colonial New England, he is the general editor of a forthcoming edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalla Christl Americans...
...Murdock is a Knight of the Royal Order of the North Star of Sweden, and holds honorary degrees from Upsala University, Harvard, Trinity, Middlebury, Bucknell and Vermont...