A time to think of ‘Mud’

Posted on November 20, 2007 by balev

By Bob Keisser
Notes on a scorecard:
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then I hope Allan Malamud is smiling in some heavenly deli, surrounded by pastrami, plasma big screens and a room full of friends who are laughing in-between snorts about Barry Bonds and O.J. Simpson …
Malamud was the much-beloved sports columnist at the [...]

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Harold Alfond, 93, U.S., businessman, philanthropist, Nov. 16

Posted on November 18, 2007 by balev

Harold Alfond, 93, founder of Dexter Shoe Co., who focused on philanthropy after selling the company in 1993 for $400 million, died Nov. 16, 2007, of complications from cancer.
Alfond was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia who was born and raised in Swampscott, Mass. He founded Dexter Shoe in 1958 and pioneered the outlet [...]

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