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More important, Tisch is a businessman of legendary stature. He and his brother Preston, who is president of Loews, started in 1946 by borrowing money from their parents to buy a single resort hotel, called Laurel-in-the-Pines, in Lakewood, N.J. By 1955 they had twelve hotels, and in 1960 they hit the big time by buying control of Loews Theaters. After a quarter-century of further growth and acquisitions, including takeovers of CNA Insurance and Lorillard Tobacco, the Tisches run a company with assets of more than $12.5 billion. The brothers have amassed personal fortunes that total...
Sprints: events held each spring to determine Eastern champions. The men's sprints are held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester in May to determine the Eastern lightweight and heavyweight champion crews. The women's sprints are a week later on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn. The most important regular event on the crew calender...
...Preston W. Brooks...
...Preston Martin, Henry Wallich, J. Charles Partee, Emmett Rice, Martha Seger. To most Americans, those names could be a random selection from a telephone book or maybe the supporting cast of the movie Revenge of the Nerds. But though they garner little recognition, Martin, Wallich & Co. are some of the most important people in America. They help determine how fast consumer prices rise, how many jobs are available and how difficult it is to get a car loan or mortgage. Obscure but powerful, they are Chairman Paul Volcker's colleagues on the Federal Reserve system's board of governors...
...undefeated Radcliffe lightweight crew showed its complete domination of lightweight competition in the East with a twenty second swamping of Smith yesterday at the Eastern Sprints on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn...