AOL’s home page Thursday featured the full-color mug of the oldest CEO in Denver and maybe America, Jack Weil at Rockmount Ranch Wear.
It linked to a story slugged “Why Eight CEOs Won’t Stop,” profiling eight men and women over 80 who still go to work.
But Weil is 106. The rest of the gang are a bunch of whippersnappers, ages 80-89. Kids!
The story reports that even though Weil’s son, Jack B., is retired and grandson Steve is president of Rockmount, Grandpa Jack has no intention of quitting. “What the %&$# else would I do?” he asks.
Magazine-land. Could Colorado get any more magazines?
Seems the answer is “yes.” The NY Post reports that Jack Ford, 55, the son of late President Gerald Ford, will helm a biweekly glossy called Mountain Time that’ll be inserted in 20 small dailies at ritzy ski resorts.
He has teamed up with magazine man Don Welsh, who has imprints such as Muppet, Barbie, He-Man.
Ford spent plenty of time in Vail when growing up (even before Ford was president, the family had a condo at The Lodge), so he knows the territory. And the Vail Daily and Grand Junction Free Press, with about 15,000 circulation each, are the biggest papers that’ll carry Mountain Time.
Shoot. The crowd at CU-Boulder women’s basketball games is always confused when they read the roster. Sophomore Whitney Houston from Memphis, Tenn., is a 5-foot-5 guard; freshman Brittany Spears from Pasadena, Calif., is a 6-foot-1 forward.
To the Max. It’s a good week for Peter Max. He illustrates Newsweek’s cover, a story on 1968, and he’s in Denver on Saturday and Sunday at his temporary gallery at 2721 E. Third Ave.
In Newsweek, Max says of ’68: “My art was all cosmic images, flying stars, galaxies. It was not depicting a brand new world, but a wish for a brand new world.”
City spirit. We hear Weber Grill steakhouse from Chicago is looking to come to Denver. … Bistro Vendome is open Monday nights, with 10 wines for $20. … Skate with the stars at Belmar today. Everyone will get a celebrity mask, such as Laura Bush, Ronald Reagan, Cone Head, Superman, Donald Trump. It’s a way to celebrate Eddie Murphy’s skating there in October for his upcoming movie “NowhereLand.” And someone will go home with a skate signed by him. … CBS game show “Power of 10” comes to Denver for auditions Dec. 1; call 877-949-POWER. … Eagle County is expecting Paul Newman to open an “OK Corral” camp north of Dotsero, says the Aspen Times. The camp would take in chronically ill kids ages 7-17 as part of Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camps, funded by donations and all the Newman products you buy. … The bubbly comes pouring down at the 20th annual Champagne Cascade in the lobby of the Brown Palace at noon Sunday. … 1,500 guys are expected at Sunday’s Allied Jewish Federation Men’s Event – to hear speaker Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. … Sez who: “Everyone is in the best seat.” John Cage
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