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...built an $830 million empire around Colonel Harland Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken. Having made his fortune, Brown sold out last year to Heublein Inc., a food and liquor distributor, and went into semi-retirement at age 37. But then he met Ollie Gleichenhaus, who runs a seven-stool hamburger joint in Miami Beach. Now Brown is determined to make him the Colonel Sanders of hamburgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: John Brown's Buddy | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...through rallying in the stretch and outgamed ODDS HAVE IT to the wire." Or "BOBS B BEES quickest to begin, moved to the inner rail when clear, increased the margin along the backstretch, began to shorten stride in the final sixteenth and was all out to last over STOOL PIGEON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Track Record | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...police then took the family back to their headquarters. "I can remember sitting on a stool," Tatrallyay said. "Big ugly guys were questioning us. I cried the whole time. My father was beaten." The police warned the family that if they tried to escape again, they would all be killed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hungarian Fencer Tatrallyay Leads Team to High Standing | 3/8/1972 | See Source »

...props are simple: desk, music stand, stool, a pair of horn-rimmed glasses used occasionally as a baton. The cast is small: one piano accompanist, plus any of 25 young, nervous operatic hopefuls selected from a field of 300 applicants. The star and plot line are fantastic: Maria Callas, in a generous sampling of the secrets that made her one of the great singer-actresses of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Putting In the Poetry | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...innocently with me demanding to see Elizabeth and Jack demanding a re-trial. But it was soon escalated out of hand by the prison authorities. I was first threatned with and then put into solitary confinement for punishment on bread and water. The cell contained nothing but a wooden stool and a bucket for excrement. At night time the stool could be exchanged for straw mattresses (this was the "de-luxe" cell). I refused to eat the bread and the prison authorities escalated it all the way--no water! I went two days and two nights without touching a drop...

Author: By Lyle Jenkins, | Title: "Please Free Elizabeth" | 10/19/1971 | See Source »

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