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...months, Washington State gives them one lump sum. In its Self-Employment and Enterprise Development project, 450 jobless workers since 1989 have collected lump-sum payments averaging $4,200. Among the SEED startups: a plumbing business, a money-management firm, a landscaping company and a tanning salon. Ronald Wilmoth, 43, used his $7,000 check as part of his financing to buy the Olympia, Wash., electronics store where he had worked for 21 years before being laid off in 1990 when the chain that owned the store went bankrupt. Says Wilmoth, who employs six workers: "I would have never tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Starting Over | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...hard we work to please them because they are used to just turning on the TV, not seeing entertainment live." Third, it is almost impossible to get agents and casting directors to come, even to Opryland, nine miles from the country-music-industry center in Nashville. Admits Kelly Wilmoth, 26, a Hersheypark performer who has appeared on the Bermuda Star Line and in dinner theaters: "From the viewpoint of getting your next job, this work almost might not have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

Over the River. For three days, U.S. officials thrashed about feebly, arrested some 400 Mexicans. Then Grover C. Wilmoth, district immigration director at El Paso, opened the border. His agents hastily registered the braceros at the river bank or on the roads, and waved them along to the waiting farm trucks. Technically they had all been arrested, and paroled to work. The fanners were happy, the braceros were happy; Juárez, if not happy, was mightily relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: North of the Border | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Stone Cold Dead is the biggest Calypso hit since Rum & Coca-Cola (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945). It is also the first big success of 45-year-old Wilmoth Houdini, a Brooklyn-born Trinidad Negro who lives in Manhattan's Harlem half the year, the other half in Trinidad. Houdini, who has recorded 800 Calypso songs, expects to make $40,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of Calypso | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Wilmoth Houdini (real name: Edgar Leon St.-Clair) calls himself King of Calypso, a title sought after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of Calypso | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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