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...terms of range and imagination, the dean of the businessmen-professors is a longtime (since 1926) Harvard Business School professor named Georges F. Doriot, 63. As president of American Research and Development Corp., he has helped to father 78 new companies, from Adage Inc. (computer support systems) to Zapata Off-Shore Co. (oil). Doriot's A.R.D. is the first risk-capital company in the U.S. to raise its money by selling shares to the public, and the first and only such company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. By bankrolling bright men with new ideas, including...
...good actor is a deep-sea diver." he explains. "For years I was content to be the guy pumping the air down to the deep-sea diver. Now I feel I've got to put on the suit myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone...
...actors like Kirk Douglas started producing movies." Once, on a movie set, he scolded a submissive assistant with a memorable command: "Don't say yes until I'm finished talking." He also made some memorable pictures-Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, All About Eve, Viva Zapata...
...supplying planting stock for reforestation and parks and technical advice on reforestation, forest education, and other research programs. Clement refused to take an official government position but served as unofficial consultant in forestry and assisted in the creation of a field station for ecological research in the huge Zapata swamp...
Founded well before the state's 1923 banking law came into effect, the Bank of Zapata was one of a number of privately owned, unincorporated Texas banks that have no charter, are free from either state or federal audits. The Medinas, explained County Attorney Joseph Caldwell, "reported to the Lord alone." But the family reputation was impeccable; almost all the town's merchants kept their accounts in Don Manuel's bank, and public funds on deposit amounted to $250,000. Then, a month ago, a sign went up in the bank's window announcing that...