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...long underwear (Jazz)-Sweet and corny music...
...physican, Mitchell began sailing at the age of eight on Lake Pontchartrain outside his home town of New Orleans and grew up with a tiller in his hand. After a restless year at Ohio's Miami University, Mitchell went to New York, served a hitch as an underwear salesman at Macy's before heading for Florida and odd jobs around the Caribbean. Married in 1939 to Elizabeth Myers, wealthy daughter of the founder of Ohio's Myers Pump Co., Mitchell lives on a 30-acre estate with a half-mile of waterfront on Sharps Point outside Annapolis...
...Civil Aeronautics Board crash specialists found empty, neatly laced shoes, a stray airmail letter, a bloodstained blouse, a prayer book lying open at the Litany of the Saints ("Lord have mercy on us . . ."). On the branches of nearby trees were towels and shirts, a child's sunsuit, some underwear-all hanging lifelessly amid the grey, acrid smoke that curled up from the crater for hours afterward...
Four years ago, Don Pruess, onetime underwear salesman, made an unannounced business call at the home of Cinemermaid Esther Williams near Santa Monica. His proposition: a partnership to mass-produce swimming pools at prices the average homeowner could afford. Esther Williams would give her name to the pools, promote them, serve as titular president of the company, and get 5% of the gross. Pruess would run the company, provide the initial $50,000 capital and own the stock. Before the afternoon was over, the International Swimming Pool Corp. was launched...
...Goal: More Growth. The Bakalar brothers run their three plants, which employ 4,300 workers, with an informal touch. In their rambling Wakefield, Mass, headquarters, which was once an underwear mill, the Bakalars share a secretary, avoid written memos, and do most of their business in corridor conferences with staff members. Decisions by Leo, 46, who serves as treasurer and chairman, and David, 34, who is president, have equal power. To justify the price of Transitron's stock (now selling at a steep 45 times projected 1960 earnings) the company is expected to diversify, use the 2.1 million shares...