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...hotel and a trade mart. Dallas-based Cloyce K. Box, 43, onetime (1949-54) speedy end for the Detroit Lions professional football team, is chairman and chief executive of Manhattan's venerable George A. Fuller Co., builder of such landmarks as the new Metropolitan Opera, United Nations and Seagram buildings. Crow brought in the Rockefellers and negotiated for the San Francisco land; Box will build the complex-if the city approves Portman's plans...
...will form the central element in the $160 million Maine-Montparnasse redevelopment project being built on the site of the gutted Gare Montparnasse. It will import from New York City the shape, roughly, of the Pan Am Building, the color and texture of Mies van der Robe's Seagram tower. The skyscraper complex will include a five-story, 250-room hotel, a department store, restaurants, galleries, shops, a skating rink, a movie theater and a 1,500-car underground parking lot. Near by will be two office-apartment buildings (one 20, the other 19 stories tall...
Edgar M. Bronfman, President, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons...
...Comin' recitative echoed through the old house more regularly than the Anvil Chorus. At one time or another, sites for a new Met were planned on 49th Street, 57th Street, 59th Street, 63rd Street, 110th Street, Washington Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge. In 1938, a 3,700-seat theater was actually built in Rockefeller Center to be used by the Met, but when the acoustics proved faulty, the company refused to move in, and it was eventually torn down. Many times blueprints were drawn up, models constructed, traffic studies made...
...where their taste is as sharp as it is for bourbon: profits. By sticking with such high-quality, wide-profit-margin labels as Early Times and Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, the company has prospered even in an industry dominated by such behemoths as Seagram (1965 sales: $1 billion). With sales of $154 million for the twelve months that ended in April, Brown-Forman distilled record profits of $10.3 million...