Word: barik
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...founder (in 1932) and president of Wall Street's Walston & Co., one of the nation's top ten stockbrokers; by his own hand (20-gauge shotgun); in Manhattan. A moody, drivingly ambitious onetime fruit vendor, Walston started the firm in San Francisco under the aegis of Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros...