Word: remo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...track, Tiger sprinter Mike Sherber had the most success at dodging the raindrops. The Princeton sophomore easily won the 400-meter and 200-meter dashes with times of 48.9 and 21.9 seconds, respectively. Harvard prevailed in the 100-meter dash, as Joe Salvo just nipped Princeton's Remo Diagioni...
Galante may have an edge in the quarrel, partly because of his forceful personality. Says New York Police Lieutenant Remo Franceschini: "He has people supporting him right across the U.S. Dellacroce is a little provincial. His base has always been Little Italy, and I don't think he has the will or the intellect to control a large group...
...motives for singling out Galante, crime watchers agree that after being paroled from Lewisburg in 1974, he first gained control of Brooklyn's Joseph Bonanno family, one of the five major Mafia families in New York, then won the respect of the other New York capi. Says Lieut. Remo Franceschini, New York's intelligence chief for organized crime: "Most of the bosses might welcome a new image, a strong figure who would take the heat and let them get on with business." One boss, Aniello Dellacroce, 62, may have other ideas. Known for his own brand of ruthlessness...
Numbers Man. Franklin seems to have fallen victim to his own attempts to bring more scientific management to the diverse, largely fashion-oriented (Henri Bendel, Bonwit Teller) business. Jarman, a numbers man who carries an elaborate pocket calculator, lopped off several divisions, including San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, and slashed 10,000 employees from the payroll. The surgery alienated the heads of many of Genesco's 78 operating divisions, who resented Jarman's lack of merchandising expertise. Some grumbled that Jarman "ran a fashion business as though it were...
...named him Genesco's first chief executive officer. A year later, Maxey Jarman retired from the board; although he visited the Genesco headquarters almost daily to chat with friends, he and his son hardly spoke. Meanwhile, Frank shut down 177 marginal Kress stores, sold such subsidiaries as San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, slashed more than 10,000 employees from the payroll and installed a new management team. "There were a lot of people around here who didn't work," Franklin Jarman told TIME Correspondent Jack White. "They thought Thursday afternoons...