Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cardinals. 17. The Green Letter. 18. Eddie Cicotte of the 1919 Chicago White Sox pitched 300 innings that year, but he was banned from baseball for life when he helped throw the World Series to the Reds. 19. Bill Virdon of Houston. Frank Howard of San Diego and Frank Robinson of San Francisco. 20. Mickey Rivers [210] and Al Oliver [209] of the Texas Rangers. 21. In 1905. every game of the Fall Classic was a shutout. Christy Matthewson of the victorious Giants won three of the contests. His teammate "Iron Man" Joe McGinity and Chief Bender of the Philadelphia...
From time to time, though a few words were audible. Constance Breuer, accepting for her husband: "I first met Marcel Breuer in Robinson Hall. "Stephen Swid, introducing Bok: "President Bok is no stranger to the arts." Bok, accepting the grant: "The greatness of American universities is due in part to the place they gave European architects." Marshall Cogan, chairman of GFI Knoll, closing the presentation: "Enjoy yourself, everyone. Drink, and have a wonderful time...
...choice of money services ranging from life insurance to traveler's checks. This trend got a big push in March when Prudential Insurance offered to pay $385 million to buy Bache Group Inc., parent company of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, the sixth largest U.S. broker. Said James D. Robinson III, 45, chairman of American Express, after the agreement was reached: "We used to say, 'Don't leave home without us.' Now we've added, 'Don't be home without us.' " Sanford I. Weill, 48, the Brooklyn-born chairman of Shearson, said that...
...Sandy") Lewis, managing partner of S.B. Lewis & Co., last summer had suggested to Weill a merger with American Express, but the Shearson chairman doubted that he could persuade his board of directors to accept any such agreement. Then Prudential showed the way. After returning from Asia, Weill called Robinson and opened serious discussions. Over Easter weekend, the two men conducted a traveling talkathon that moved from Weill's 13-room home in Greenwich, Conn., to his seven-room apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to Robinson's nearby residence. When the deal was finally...
Weill's new partner Robinson has already described his bold vision of the future of finance. Said he recently: "By the end of the decade, a typical consumer may have a stockbroker in California, a banker in New York, an insurance agent in Maryland and a real estate agent jetting back and forth from Chicago to Boston. All of that will be on his American Express card, of course...