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They quickly bought an Atlantic City hotel for $4,350,000 (they later sold it for $15 million), leased another in Atlantic City and two more (the McAlpin and Belmont Plaza) in Manhattan. By refurbishing each, cutting costs, adding attractive facilities and raising room rates, they made all prosper. In 1956 they decided to build their first hotel. The result was the $17 million Americana in Bal Harbour, Fla.-which was so flamboyantly luxurious, even by the standards of nearby Miami Beach, that it easily won the title of Miami's "hotel of the year...
Last week, after watching both papers prosper, and the Tribune and the News become almost even in circulation and quality, John Francis Fitzpatrick died of a heart attack at 73. With characteristic foresight, he had decided years ago on his successor: John W. Gallivan, 45. On Fitzpatrick's death the Tribune, in open defiance of the old man's longstanding order, ran his picture on Page One, thereby providing many subscribers with their first glimpse of the ungregarious Irishman who had greatly altered and immeasurably improved Utah's journalistic landscape...
...customer who joins the club (for about $5 to $15 a year) thus can pay for all his repairs in one monthly bill. The home-repair club is no quick road to riches (clubs in Detroit, Chicago and elsewhere have gone broke), but many clubs prosper on their customers' problems. Long Island's Allied expects to contract about $1,000,000 worth of business this year through its 5,000 members, take in an additional $46,000 from franchise rights to 70 other clubs...
...respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion consistently and faithfully, and to so conduct myself in public affairs and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon our Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory...
...enough to make money. The big talk in the electronics industry is of the coming "shake-out" that will spell doom for many of the 5,000 firms now in the industry. Even in the glamorous transistor field, only the strongest and most inventive companies can hope to prosper in the increasingly tough competition...