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Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...
Southern Comfort. Gottwald did not always have such problems. He began his career half a century ago as a clerk at Richmond's Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Co., frugally saved his salary, invested all he could in the company's stock, and continued to do so as he climbed the management ladder. Ultimately he became president-and the biggest shareholder. Gottwald's dollar-tight reputation endeared him to bankers, who deemed him a sound credit risk. Indeed Gottwald and his sons were able to borrow $200 million ten years ago to buy Ethyl Corp. from General Motors...
Coach Hewes hopes that the lower half of her lineup will be able to produce a strong effort in support of the top three. Ellen rouse, Ingrid Sarapuu, land March Richmond will compete at four, five and sex respectively...
Junior Meg Morgan will play at the number one position for coach Perla Hewes's squad. Joy Skon and Jill Robertson start the season this afternoon at two and three and will be backed up by Ellen Rouse. Ingrid Sarapuu and Marcy Richmond at positions four through...
Other talented performers besides Colwell and Montgomery have been making regular appearances at Zircon or Jack's. Particularly noteworthy are "Spider" John Koerner, Reeve Little, and a group called Road Apples (formerly Finnerty, Morse, and Richmond.) A group of three men and one woman, calling themselves the Sheiks, are putting together a good-time style of light rock, slightly reminiscent of the Mamas and Papas, covering tunes by the Band and Chuck Berry. And when certain folk and blues luminaries are passing through this city, they may make an unscheduled trip to the bandstand at Jack's, as Rosalie Sorrels...