Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third entrepreneur arrived with a collection of black cloaks over his arm for renting to short-sleeved women judged by the doorkeeper insufficiently dressed to enter the basilica. (After the hawker had made friends with the doorman, few prosperous-looking women got to see St. Peter's without first hiring...
...Angeles, Crime Entrepreneur Mickey Cohen (TIME, Aug. 1) went a long way toward proving himself the first U.S. hoodlum with an uncontrollable gift of gab. Instead of preserving a sullen silence when it developed that the cops had been eavesdropping on him through microphones hidden in his house, Mickey submitted to interviews. To impress Newshen Florabel Muir he even let one of his retainers, a Johnny Stompanata, win a couple of hands of gin rummy. Astounded, Stompanata asked: "Why do you do that?" Said Mickey, airily: "Noblesse oblige!" Stompanata asked for a translation, but was cut off. "How," asked Mickey...
Gump's sharp break with its incensescented past was decreed by Richard Benjamin Gump, 43, an artist-entrepreneur who took over as president in March 1947. This year he has boosted business 10% over 1948 (when the net profit was $160,000 on a gross of $2,600,000). To Dick Gump the change was part of a crusade against "that awful, stuffed-shirt attitude about art which scares the people and keeps the merchandise on your shelves...
...rebuttal to this was delivered by Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, who said that the "thing that makes 'the system' work is the entrepreneur...
...midnight bus to Wellesley resumes its regular schedule this weekend and will provide service every Saturday this year for College students and their dates, co-entrepreneur Walter C. Abrams '51 and Herschal Langenthal '50 announced yesterday...