Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share, when his company was sold to Fluor Corp. Recalls Duncan: "First Boston knew all the tricks. We got more than our money's worth." Says Michael Callahan, senior vice president of Quaker Oats, who worked closely with Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs when Quaker Oats bought Stokely-Van Camp last year: "Our business is food, and not mergers. So whenever we go shopping, we seek professional help...
...Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked him, "Why did you play that weak, sniveling character?" Replied Douglas: "I'm an actor." Warned the Duke: "Yeah, well, don't let me catch you playing a role like that again...
...host of TV game shows, whose many creations included Concentration, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; of a heart attack; in New York City. By 1958 he had four popular quiz shows on TV, among them the superhit Twenty One, with $129,000 Winner Charles Van Doren. Then investigations revealed Van Doren and other contestants had been coached. The resulting scandal wiped quiz shows, and Barry, off the air for years until he came back from near penury with Joker and others...
Forbes, who is retiring as Peabody Professor of Music this year, gave his final lecture in Music 12th, "The Works of Ludwig van Beethoven "Forbes, the music department's head tutor, also taught Music 2 this year...
...does not bother the three women that their satanic host acts and thinks like the piggiest of male chauvinists. Lunching with Sukie, Van Home feels "a surge of possessive pride in her beauty, her vital spirit. His. His toy." He runs them through some bizarre and degrading sexual hoops, but the playthings adore "our dear Darryl. Our leader. Our redeemer from Eastwick ennui." His ample house gives their new-found senses of identity room to burgeon: "In Van Home's realm they left their children behind and became children themselves." This is where the action is, Sukie muses...