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...Chase Manhattan, the man on the spot was Rockefeller...
...years the standing joke in banking circles was that Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller kept firing the wrong person. In his attempts to straighten out the nation's third largest bank, he should have let himself go. When Rockefeller became president in 1961, Chase was New York City's largest bank. But it was soon outpaced in both size and earnings by its aggressive rival Citibank...
Though the banking community was skeptical, Rockefeller has done just that. When he leaves Chase at the time of the next annual meeting in April, the bank will be in good health. In the three years since he wrote that memo, Chase's assets have grown by $22.4 billion to $65.4 billion, and return on assets, the best measure of a bank's performance, soared ahead of rival Citibank in the first half of this year...
...them even painted the flowers in Monet's garden at Giverny, with the assiduity of students doing the Roman ruins a century before. They were not trivial or maladroit. Yet charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht-man and their colleagues have always seemed to be squeezed uncomfortably between the great Yankee realists like Eakins and Homer in the late 19th century and the robust "Ashcan" painters like Robert Henri in the early 20th...
...third and fourth places. Then East Germany's Jurgen Straub, 26, spurted in front, and the quarter-mile pace quickened from 63 sec. to 55, just the way Coe likes it. He hit the accelerator in the backstretch and roared past Straub into the lead. Ovett gave chase but could not even catch the East German. Coe's winning time was a slow 3:38.4, more than six seconds behind the world record he shares with Ovett. "I did it the way I planned," said Coe. "Once I got into the rhythm of it, I felt I could...