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...hands of the Basel-based Sachers. The family, one of Switzerland's leading cultural benefactors, is headed by Maja Sacher, 93, and her second husband Paul, 83. Maja Sacher's first husband, Emanuel Hoffmann, son of the company's founder, died in a car crash in 1932. A prominent patron of modern art, Maja Sacher has endowed Basel's museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores by many of the century's great composers. His musical foundation holds the world's most important % collection of Igor Stravinsky's papers. While Hoffmann...
UNLV, which was put on probation in the late 1970s for NCAA transgressions, is one of the superpowers of college basketball. In a city that worships winners, "Tark the Shark" Tarkanian is a patron saint, with the highest winning percentage (82%) in the sport. Along with that come use of a Cadillac, a base salary of $173,855 and a percentage of postseason revenues that could reach $80,000. (UNLV President Robert Maxson's salary is $123,500.) Tarkanian also has an endorsement contract with Nike shoes, a promotional arrangement with a Vegas nightclub and a sporting-goods store...
Chicago's Evans Food Products, which claims to be the largest U.S. pork-rind producer, predicts that annual sales in the $200 million-a-year industry will rise 10% during 1989. Evans hopes to profit from the pork rind's upper-crust patron with a new brand called Presidential Pork Rinds, which features a red- white-and-blue label. The company is planning promotional stickers that will proclaim SKINS...
...comment on Ken Lee's disparaging remarks about Lamont. While "I hate Lamont" unfortunately seems to be a widespread and hastily uttered sentiment, it makes me sick at heart every time I hear it. Even worse are scenes I have witnessed at the circulation desk of Lamont. A patron becomes abusive when the desk worker refuses to tell him or her which of the four other people in the patron's tutorial currently has the only copy of the reserve reading. A professor, or more likely his stressed-out head T.A., decides it's taking too long for a book...
Neither is a regular patron of the company, though Wallace said he saw Brustein's work at Yale "so I know what to expect at Harvard...