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What do increasing numbers of small businesses have in common with one of the factions of the Ku Klux Klan? As of last week: bankruptcy. Said Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan: "Everyone should try Chapter...
...Invisible Empire's financial problems began last year when the Internal Revenue Service assessed the Louisiana-based group, one of the largest Klan organizations in the U.S., $8,650 in back taxes, penalties and interest. Last week the Imperial Wizard, in the first formal step required under the federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy law, filed court papers listing the group's assets as about $14,800 and liabilities as $42,019, with the IRS as the largest creditor. The Invisible Empire now has 120 days in which to file a financial reorganization plan with the U.S. District Court...
Gentlemen's Quarterly asked him to pose doing a buck-and-wing. But it's his new megabuck-and-change contract that really has St. Louis Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, 28, kicking up his heels. Last week "the Wizard of Oz," as he is known around Busch Stadium, doubled his old salary in a pact with the 1982 World Series-winning Cards that will make him the highest-paid shortstop in major league history: a reported $1 million a year. Oz's golden-brick road will run for at least the next three seasons...
...home games are where the over nightesrs shine, scenes of in evolving ritual that dates back into the years of Coach John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood. Through chants of "Who's he?" "Big deal" "So what" "Who cares?" and "Go home" after the introduction of the visitors' line-up, shouts of "Play ball" at the end of the national anthem, and the flawless execution of a repertoire of game-time cheers and jeers, the faithful add to their enjoyment of the best games while over the likes of San Joe State...
Once a week Bliss meets with his chief assistants, a quartet his secretary calls the "four Js: Joan, Joe, John and Jimmy." With their surnames attached they are known as Joan Ingpen, the scheduling wizard; Joseph Volpe, overseer of backstage activities; John Dexter, the production adviser; and James Levine. That weekly meeting enables Bliss to get the view from all four sides of the big house. "Sometimes," he observes, "an artistic decision will create a technical problem or a box office or funding problem. When you choose a new production, you also have to ask the question: Is this...