Gossage said that Smith " wants choirboys and not winning players " and that Smith " just listens to what Mom says ," a reference to Padres owner Kroc, Smith's mother-in-law.

Gossage also said Kroc was " poisoning the world with her cheeseburgers.

But C. Arnholt Smith changed his mind, and instead sold the Padres to McDonald's co-founder Ray Kroc, who was not interested in moving the team and kept the team in San Diego.

* February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant ( the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940 ), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.

Another concept Kroc added was great swaths of glass which enabled the customer to view the food preparation, a practice still found in chains such as Krispy Kreme.

At roughly the same time as Kroc was conceiving what eventually became McDonald's Corporation, two Miami, Florida businessmen, James McLamore and David Edgerton, opened a franchise of the predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King.

Raymond Albert " Ray " Kroc ( October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984 ) was an American businessman.

Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime.

Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Oak Park, near Chicago, on October 5, 1902.

The agreement was a handshake with split agreement between the parties because Kroc insisted that he could not show the royalty to the investors he had lined up to capitalize his purchase.

Joan Beverly Kroc ( née Mansfield ; August 27, 1928 – October 12, 2003 ) was the third wife of McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc and a philanthropist.

Kroc was born on August 27, 1928 in West St. Paul, Minnesota.

McDonald's founder Ray Kroc was also the owner of the Padres, at whose games the Chicken appeared frequently.

The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice was established thanks to Mrs. Kroc's gift of $ 75 million in-all " to not only teach peace, but make peace ".

He was also inducted into the Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor in 1997 along with Curt Carlson, Charles Forte, Baron Forte, and Ray Kroc.

He was also inducted into the Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor in 1997 along with Curt Carlson, Charles Forte, Baron Forte, and Ray Kroc.

He replaced Ray Kroc as Chairman in 1977, then was named Senior Chairman upon Kroc's death.

Convinced that Kroc was leading the company into trouble, Sonneborn sold his sizable block of McDonald's stock for three million dollars and left the company.

He was posthumously vindicated by Ray Kroc several years after his death, and just months before Kroc himself died.

In the book, McDonald ’ s: Behind the Arches, Love ( 1995 ) the secret was revealed: “ What converted McDonald ’ s into a money machine had nothing to do with Ray Kroc, or the McDonald brothers, or even the popularity of McDonald ’ s hamburgers, french fries, and milk shakes.

In 1954, Ray Kroc, who was a milkshake machine salesman at the time, became inspired by the evident financial success of the brothers ' concept, immediately grasping the restaurants ' enormous potential.

During the Mariners ' final season, the team was owned by then-San Diego Padres and McDonald's owner Ray Kroc.

* GenoDynamics: Understanding Genocide Through Time and Space by Christian Davenport ( Kroc Institute – University of Notre Dame ) and Allan Stam ( University of Michigan )

Enticed by the success of the McDonald's concept, Kroc signed a franchise agreement with the brothers and began opening McDonald's restaurants in Illinois.

As part of his commitment to cleanliness, Kroc often took part in cleaning his own Des Plaines, Illinois outlet by hosing down the garbage cans and scraping gum off the cement.

America ’ s leading ' Peace ' institution is probably the University of Notre Dame ’ s Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, established and endowed by Joan herself .< ref >

Stations planned for an expanded Salvation Army facility downtown were cancelled when the Syracuse Salvation Army received word in January 2006 that it had not been selected as one of the recipients of a grant from the Kroc Foundation, run by Joan B. Kroc.

* Understanding Covert Repressive Action: The Case of the US Government Against the Republic of New Africa by Christian Davenport, Professor of Peace Studies and Political Science at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame.

In 1967, Simplot and McDonald's founder Ray Kroc agreed by handshake that the Simplot Company would provide frozen French fries to the restaurant chain.

The McDonald's # 1 Store Museum, also known as the McDonald's USA First Store Museum, is housed in a replica of the former McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois opened by Ray Kroc in April 1955.

The ground floor exhibits original fry vats, milkshake Multimixers ( which Kroc had sold when he first encountered the San Bernardino McDonald's restaurant ), soda barrels and grills, attended to by a crew of male mannequins in 1950s uniforms.

" When Joan Kroc, wife of Padres owner Ray Kroc, publicly offered Smith a job as an assistant gardener on her estate, Smith and Gottlieb's relationship with the organization deteriorated further.

Kroc sold the team in 1990 and turned her attention to philanthropy.

Several institutions in the San Diego area are named after her, including the think tank Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego, the St. Vincent de Paul Joan Kroc Center for the Homeless in downtown and the Kroc-Copley Animal Shelter in the Morena District.

Another significant donation to the college came in the form of multi-million dollar gifts from weight-loss tycoon Jenny Craig, inventor Donald Shiley, investment banker and alumnus Bert Degheri, and an additional gift of $ 50 million Mrs. Kroc left the School of Peace Studies upon her death.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

The autobiography would be based on much of his journal, which he said he kept while in rehab.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, " Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

Pohl, in his autobiography, The Way the Future Was, said Wollheim voted for Republican Presidential Candidate Alfred Landon in 1936.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

Upon accepting the book for publication Santillana said, " It is my understanding that, fictional as the material may sound, it is straight autobiography.

After Clinton's autobiography My Life appeared in 2004, Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail:

Humphries said in his autobiography, My Life As Me, that he found Cook's lack of interest in art and literature off-putting.

In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

In her autobiography, My Story she said:

" Watson, Jr., later gave a slightly different version of the story in his autobiography, where he said the initial market sampling indicated 11 firm takers and 10 more prospective orders.

In his autobiography, Plummer said that Chapman was to have been a technical adviser on the film but the French authorities would not allow him in the country because he was still wanted over an alleged plot to kidnap the Sultan of Morocco.

In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $ 600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option ; in the Ted Okuda – Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $ 1, 000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $ 7, 500 per film ( equal to $ today ), to be divided among the trio.

" In his autobiography, Music is my Mistress ( 1973 ), Ellington said he missed more lessons than he attended, feeling at the time that playing the piano was not his talent.

Burton showed a talent for English and Welsh literature at grammar school, and demonstrated an excellent memory, though his consuming interest was sports – rugby ( in fact famous Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams said in his autobiography that Burton could have gone far as a player ), cricket, and table tennis He later said, " I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.

In his autobiography, published in 1909, he said,

It was thus he formed, as his autobiography records: “ the deep impression of there being a man in Vienna who actually listened with attention to every word his patients said to him ... a revolutionary difference from the attitude of previous physicians ...” ( Jones 1959 p159 ).

Master of magic Robert-Houdin was born Jean Eugène Robert in Blois, France, on 6 December 1805 — a day after his autobiography said he was.

In an autobiography, Mantle said he married Merlyn not out of love, but because he was told to by his domineering father.

In his first autobiography Tenzing said that he believed the Yeti was a large ape, and although he had never seen it himself his father had seen one twice, but in his second autobiography he said he had become much more skeptical about its existence.