Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make it up especially for me. My wife and I have been trying to have a baby for ten years now, and she just told me she's pregnant. I want to get her a trophy-she deserves it." It was no trouble at all. Bruce Robbins, owner of a four-store chain called Trophies, Inc., fixed the customer up with a sedate plaque attesting that the man and his wife were proven "producers...
Beginning a probe into the scope of U.S. gambling, the McClellan subcommittee found itself fascinated by the gimmicks that technical ingenuity has brought to the play of cards and dice. One knowledgeable witness was beefy, sweaty Paul Karnov. 48, co-owner of Chicago's moneymaking ($400,000 in gross sales last year, with an $86,000 profit) K. C. Card Co. Karnov introduced himself as "a manufacturer of perfect dice"; but he admitted that he devoted 21 pages of his catalogue to what he blandly called "trick dice or gaffed dice." Growled Arkansas Democrat McClellan: "The more...
...Somewhat less secure than Mauch was General Manager Frank Lane of the American League's cellar-dwelling Kansas City Athletics who was fired last week without notice by Owner Charles O. Finley...
Humming Along. Nine years ago, two teen-age girls - Kareen and Raquel Lou-dermilk - began to hold nondenominational prayer meetings in the church, and things looked up again for St. Paul's. The summer people turned to and put it in shape: a Denver store owner contributed paint and paid for painting, a doctor spent his vacation repairing the steps, a man from Columbus put in two weeks repairing the organ. Bats and rats were ousted; a new roof was put on; broken windows were replaced; the interior was replastered; and more than 50 people began showing...
Died. Sir Victor Sassoon, 79, monocled Rothschild of the Orient and owner of one of Britain's finest racing stables; of a heart attack; at Cable Beach, Nassau. Financial chief of a famed British banking clan-and cousin to World War I's angriest young man, Poet Siegfried Sassoon-Sir Victor parlayed a fortune originally built in the opium trade into ownership of much of prewar Shanghai...