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Finally, nearly four years later, Stolar got the green light to leave in March. He and his Soviet-born wife Gita decided to return to his hometown on July 4. Once in the Windy City, Stolar donned an I LOVE CHICAGO button, took in a baseball game at Wrigley Field and mused, "I wouldn't be surprised if I decided to move back here...
While Drexel's case is extraordinary, other investment houses are going through wrenching changes in their corporate culture as executives search for ways to cut the fat. In Chicago brokerages are passing up the chance to rent $55,000-per-season "skyboxes" in Wrigley Field, even though treating clients to a Cubs game is a traditional way of bringing in new business. Many superstar brokers now make their own telephone pitches to court new clients, and brew their own coffee, after losing the assistants who handled those chores. Even senior partners are being laid off when their sales volume dwindles...
...Hanging out at Wrigley Field for the rest of my life...
...scene that is worse than a game being played under the lights in Wrigley Field--kids go up to their favorite players with ball, pen and $10 in hand...
...boats of that quality, prices are rising at least 10% annually. At the first-ever auction of antique powerboats, which took place in May in Newport, R.I., a 33-ft. Baby Gar, once owned by Chewing Gum Heir P.K. Wrigley, fetched a bid of $95,000; the current owner, Milton Merle, was asking $140,000 and declined the offer. "It's a one-of-a-kind collectible," declared Merle, a New York marketing consultant who has amassed a fleet of seven vintage runabouts...