Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FORTUNE writer, doing a story on the secretive Campbell Soup Co., noted how much butter went into a vat of tomato soup, priced the cost of wholesale butter and other ingredients and figured Campbell's annual profits at $6 million. He also estimated the estate of its former owner at $120 million...
...relaxed setting of a camp helps soothe the anxieties that overwhelm many adults when confronted with a computer. Susan Cooper, co-owner of a New York City messenger service, went to the Amherst institute to catch up with her 14-year-old son John. Back home now in Ridgewood, N.J., she can look with new insight at print-outs of the programs he has written. "Finally, I understand what I was missing," she says. "He had grasped something that had eluded me for years...
...Harvard said no to the Breakers, citing potential community opposition and the belief that the team's use of the Stadium could disrupt Harvard's own sports program. This is reasonable, until one considers the Breaker's whole plan According to George Matthews, owner of the Breakers the team was "willing to double security" for the games and have a clean-up crew go through the Business School area afterwards. In addition, he believes that an agreement could have been reached with the USFI, on scheduling to avoid any particular conflicts such as the Olympic soccer scheduled for Harvard...
...forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their way into the hands of John Connally, 66. Now in partnership with Forrest Fenn, owner of a gallery in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the onetime Governor of Texas and presidential hopeful wants to sell off some of his acquisitions. Price: $12,000 to $15,000 apiece. After all, argues Fenn, "If they're as good as real, then what the hell are we talking about...
...asked about compensation for the banner and the House Office told me I would have to talk to the Master, who would not return until the fall. At this point I went about trying to locate the owner of the banner and a receipt on which to base compensation demands. With letter and receipt from the owner in hand I went to see Dean of Students Archie Epps about the banner. He told me that this was a responsibility of Dudley House and that I should see the Senior Tutor if the Master was not in. When I made...