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...Potato Latke. But Brando does think. When he arrived in Montana for The Missouri Breaks, he had definite ideas for changing his character which he says "was as heavy as potato latke." (Brando's speech is loaded with Yiddishisms, from his days in New York with Stella Adler, the famous acting teacher, and her family. "I'm all Jew," boasts the Protestant-born Brando...
THIS VERY UNHEROIC start not-withstanding, Kroc's early empire-building methods were reassuringly based on efficient Harvard Business School principles. McDonald's sold burgers made quicker, cheaper, and cleaner than its competitors could. Kroc developed computer-run fryers that adjusted themselves to each potato stick, assuring a uniform munchability of each french fry. The consistent quality such techniques enforced in every stand endeared McDonald's to Americans with their stable habits. The franchises began to reproduce phenomenally. A success story within the success story was that Kroc's personal secretary, who in those struggling early years took company stock...
Possibly Hughes should have spent less time accumulating his billions and more time learning to spell. He added, in an excerpt of a memo TIME printed, a final e to the words "negro" and "potato." Money can't buy everything...
...declared: "There is a good chance that Mr. Hughes did write that will." The Mormons then rushed to Las Vegas, the seat of Clark County, to file the testament. "It could be an actual legal document or a hoax," said Mormon Spokesman Wendell Ashton. "This was a hot potato to land in our office...
...also may be a bad potato. The handwriting bore a resemblance to Hughes'. But other features of the will seemed highly suspect. Hughes was a nitpicking perfectionist who spelled out everything in exhaustive detail. Yet the purported will contained vague statements (sample: "the remainder [of the estate] is to be divided among the key men in my company's [sic]." Furthermore, Hughes almost never made spelling errors. Yet the 260-word testament is studded with eleven misspellings, including "cildren" for children and "re-volk" for revoke...