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Jon B. Lovelace dies at 84; head of American Funds
Jon B. Lovelace, who led the Los Angeles-based American Funds mutual fund company as it became one of the country's largest money management firms, has died. He was 84.
His family said Lovelace died of natural causes at his home in Santa Barbara on...Tags: Finance, Heart Attack, Princeton University, J. Paul Getty Trust, Mutual Funds
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Hanging tough on Main Street: Downtown merchants battle for place in modern landscape
eruehs@amnews.comEighty-eight year old Louise Dean of Mercer County is handed a photograph of Harrodsburg’s Main Street from the 1930s. She embraces the snapshot as if it were a picture of a lost loved one and, after a brief pause, the memories shoot forth like...Tags: Sales, Business, Abraham Lincoln, Human Interest, Services and Shopping
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Good times for San Antonio's River Walk
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDining alfresco on the famed River Walk has its risks. Trust me. I know. One pleasantly temperate afternoon not long ago, while gearing up to ravage a plate of chicken enchiladas slathered in verde sauce, I unrolled my cloth napkin to fetch the...Tags: Hawaii, San Antonio, Entertainment, Texas, Disneyland Park
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Michael Hiltzik: Angelides vs. Pecora
Money & CompanyThe question of why the Angelides Commission, which just released its report on the financial meltdown of 2007-08 and is the subject of my Sunday column, doesn't resemble the groundbreaking 1933 Pecora investigation into the 1929 crash is one of...... -
Cog Hill owner, Frank Jemsek
Staff reporterFrank Jemsek is the President and CEO of Cog Hill Golfcourse. Three brothers moved to the Chicago area in 1920. John W., Martin J., and Bert Coghill bought the McLaughlin farm on the east side of Lemont Illinois in 1926 to build a golf club. They then...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Bars and Clubs, Tiger Woods, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sports
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Book review: 'A Secret Gift' by Ted Gup
Los Angeles Times"A Secret Gift How One Man's Kindness — and a Trove of Letters — Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression" Ted Gup Penguin Press: 368 pp., $25.95 On Dec. 18, 1933, an ad appeared in the Canton, Ohio, paper offering financial...Tags: Society, Health and Medical Professionals, Human Interest, Plastic Surgeons, Family
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Exploring Mitchell Caverns in Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
Special to the Los Angeles TimesReporting from the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, Calif. There's Down Under, like the story on New Zealand on the left side of this page, and then there's down under. I chose the latter. Like that journey, my trip to the Providence...Tags: Landforms, Carlsbad, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Entertainment, Arizona
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"The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism" by Joyce Appleby
Special to the Tribune"The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism" By Joyce Appleby WW. Norton, 494 pages, $29.95 In 'The Relentless Revolution' Professor Joyce Appleby, a past president of the American Historical Association, offers a sweeping new history of...Tags: Asthma, Arts and Culture, Health and Medical Professionals, Chest, Career and Workplace
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Why the economy still feels worse than it looks
Money & CompanyStop with the Great Depression comparisons, already! So argued economist Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that caused a stir in the economics community. Meltzer???s central point was that... -
Is this economic downturn just what the doctor ordered?
Booster ShotsIf the recession has you worried about paying for visits to the doctor, here???s a small silver lining: a new study strengthens the link between a bad economy and good health. The Great Depression that began with the stock market......
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