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Murray Kaufman, as only the K's bank manager knows him, is something of an expert in the field-he was a dropout himself 25 years ago from The Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High ("Man, you feel you gotta bust out"). Further, as a disk jockey who is both widely syndicated (he claims 106 stations) and well connected (he is known by his fans as "the Fifth Beatle," and has been included in the Beatles' impending movie), he should know what's happening. His show for Sarge's Office of Economic Opportunity had almost...
Cheaper than Hamburger. Before he came to National, Bronx-born Gene Klein made his mark as a California used-car dealer by adopting an unusual pitch. He advertised that his cars were "cheaper per pound than hamburger," marked them variously at 440 or 660 per Ib. He bought 50,000 shares of National with his profits, wound up as president after the company ran into critical financial trouble. "There were so many fires to put out," says Klein, "that I had to make a list of priority fires." Klein sold off some unprofitable properties, clipped personnel, then went to work...
...Quick & the Dead. The high point of Baruch's later life was his role as U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. In 1946, at the U.N.'s temporary home at Hunter College in The Bronx, he unveiled what came to be called "the Baruch Plan...
...Bronx boy, Screvane is of Italian and Irish parentage, went to Mississippi State University on an athletic scholarship. He is still a physical culturist, enjoys performing deep knee-bends while standing on one foot. He left school after one year, became a city garbage-truck driver at $30 a week. He worked his way up to the $25,000-a-year job of sanitation commissioner. It was from that post that Bob Wagner, in 1961, appointed him deputy mayor, then picked him as a running mate. In New York, the city council president is something like a vice president. What...
...DRUMMOND The Bronx...