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Joe Ferrairo - Director of Engineering, Polywork
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Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
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Bio — Jo Lepore
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During the next twelve years under Mac the Knife, we not only radically changed the composition of what we sold; we totally centralized the distribution into our own system, ending all direct store deliveries by vendors!
Patty Civalleri • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
After seeing Rosselli at his house, I asked Mr. S if Giancana had leaned on Rosselli to lean on Cohn to give him the part in From Here to Eternity, and he gave me a Cheshire-cat grin. “Hey, I got that part through my own fucking talent,” he said. And then he gave me a wink.
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Jeff Greer • BIZNISTRY: Transforming Lives through Enterprise
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.