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After a day at the office filled mostly with meetings and phone calls, Damon Dash, CEO of Roc-A-Fella Enterprises, hops into the rear of a Ford V16 party van with two underlings. There will be no party tonight. His driver is taking him to XM Satellite Radio's New York City studios, where Dash and his Roc-A-Fella crew put on a weekly talk show to plug his rap, clothing and film empire. Slouched in his leather seat, Dash grabs control of the CD remote and makes a selection. It isn't Roc-A-Fella superstar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Dashing Diversification | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Died. Lawrence Peter Fisher, 72, high-living, art-fancying member of the "Body by Fisher" dynasty who. as vice president of General Motors after Fisher's absorption by G.M.. fathered the now defunct La Salle and the nation's first 16-cylinder car. the 1930 Cadillac V16: of a circulatory failure: in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 15, 1961 | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

Cadillac, lower and longer except in the unchanged V16, offers four models in its Sixty-One series, a Sixty Special (touring sedan), Fleetwoods for the custom trade, LaSalles for the middle-price buyer. Prices: $1,320 to $5,140. Features: "syncromatic shift" on the steering post, sunshine top, "Controlled Action Ride," which reduces sidesway through a new rear springing system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...large following but he has no academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yalemen Convicted | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...your issue of Nov. 2, under People, you say that public enemy Al Capone's old armored limousine was junked in Moab, Utah, after a wreck. Last week I paid 5? to see "Al Capone's $20,000, bulletproof, V16 Cadillac limousine" which was in a side-show at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. I don't begrudge the nickel, but I would like to know if Al had two such automobiles or if what I saw was just another Fair farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Stevenson Rebutted | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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