Show Business: Offstage Line

Jack Lyons, president of Bloomingdale Properties, a company that administers the depaitment-store family's fortune, was recently watching a TV movie about a bank robbery. Suddenly his wife pointed at one of the robbers and asked, "Isn't that the man you're in business with in California?" By Dun & Bradstreet! The 6-ft.-plus, curly-haired crook on the screen was in fact the same fellow with whom Lyons had just concluded a six-figure real estate deal. "It was the first I knew he was an actor," says Lyons stoutly. "He had a proposition, and when we...

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