Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Krackerjacks, the hippy clothing emporium, is opening a new store closer to Harvard Square. The owner said yesterday that it will replace Williams clothing store on the corner of Mass. Avenue and Plympton Street in January...
Krackerjacks, which opened a year ago, has been a greater success than even the owners expected. The turning point, said Don Levy, co-owner with Alan Peterson, was the fantastic business they did at Christmas time. They were then able to open a combination Krackerjacks-Paraphernalia store in Hyannis, Cape...
Among its opponents: Attorney-Businessman Joseph Alioto, 51, a self-made millionaire, who handily won the city's mayoral race with 109,982 votes over Attorney-Restaurant Owner Harold Dobbs (94,089). A moderate Democrat and political newcomer who had the support of both Big Labor and retiring Mayor Jack Shelley, Alioto promised that his first action would be to reduce the tax burden on homeowners...
Died. Charles Bickford, 78, veteran actor; of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A ruddy-faced onetime lumberjack, Bickford most often merely played himself-a rough, tough, but good and decent man, remembered as the priest in The Song of Bernadette (1944), and recently as the leathery ranch owner in TV's The Virginian...
Ahmanson's sense of financial timing was honed early. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, he began dabbling in the stock market in his teens, ran up his $20,000 grubstake by age 18. He moved west after his father's death, started selling fire insurance, and soon hit upon the idea of concentrating on the low-risk residential side of that business, especially on foreclosed properties (which in those days required a new policy). Thus the Depression made him rich. "I felt like an undertaker," Ahmanson once remarked. 'The worse...