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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrewd Tricks. Brooklyn-reared Rosenthal showed his talent for making money soon after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business ('56) and landed a $4,000-a-year job at the prestigious investment-banking house of Lehman Bros. In four years of shrewd stock trading ("I used every trick"), he managed to turn his own $2,500 nest egg into nearly $1,000,000. Then he launched out as an underwriter...
...export loan to help dispose of surplus U.S. grain, will receive a 13% stock interest. The C.C.C. also gets first claim on Intra's U.S. assets, including its shuttered Manhattan branch (which will be liquidated), a 27-story Fifth Avenue skyscraper and revenues from the Warner Bros, spy film, Triple Cross...
...persevered, graduated from Suffield, afterward got a job as a page on Wall Street, where he developed an enthusiasm for finance. At night he studied accounting. At Manhattan's Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound...
...from Boston came word that he had agreed to turn over to the bank a $1,000,000 fee due him over a ten-year period for "special services" to Moviemaker Jack L. Warner. One such service: arranging the sale last year of Warner's stock in Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. to Seven Arts Productions Ltd., which Semenenko made possible with a $19.5 million loan to Seven Arts from a syndicate of First National and four other lenders...
...done little but a few TV specials, which take him a mere matter of weeks to rehearse. These obviously left him too much free time and energy, so last week Fred Astaire, 68, went back to work in another movie. Signed for the lead in Warner Bros. $4,000,000 version of the 1947 Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, Astaire as usual is choreographing all his own numbers, as usual is going into training like a prizefighter to get the old bones in tip-tap shape. The master will have some new bones gliding alongside, though, in the itty...