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Sonny Werblin and his wife established the David and Leah Ray Werblin Foundation which provides financial support for Rutgers University, charitable causes, and cultural activities.
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A five-man syndicate, headed by Sonny Werblin, saved the team from certain bankruptcy, purchasing the lowly Titans for one million dollars.
The franchise was sold for $ 1 million to a five man syndicate headed by Sonny Werblin of the Gotham Football Club, Inc. in February 1963.
Sonny Werblin graduated from Rutgers University and was employed by the Music Corporation of America, eventually becoming president of the company's television division.
Lew Wasserman joined MCA in 1936 at the age of 23 and rose through the ranks to MCA for more than four decades, with Sonny Werblin as his right-hand man.
David Abraham " Sonny " Werblin ( March 17, 1910-November 21, 1991 ) was a prominent entertainment industry executive and sports impresario who was an owner of the New York Jets, Chairman of Madison Square Gardens, and who built and managed the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
In 1963, Sonny Werblin and his partners purchased the American Football League ( AFL ) Titans of New York from original owner Harry Wismer.
Newark Star-Ledger sports columnists Jerry Izenberg and Sidney Zion would later speculate that, because the Jets fired Werblin, there was a " Curse of Sonny Werblin " on the team.
Sonny Werblin built the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey which he ran from 1971 to 1977.
In addition, Sonny Werblin was a major shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey.
Rutgers University built the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on its Busch Campus, near High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the Raritan River from its main campus in New Brunswick.
When Sonny Werblin bought the New York Titans franchise of the American Football League in 1963, he changed both the team's name ( to the New York Jets ) and its coach.
They arranged the 1963 sale of the team to the more financially-stable Sonny Werblin, who proceeded to change the name of the team to the " Jets " and move it the next year into the now-completed Shea Stadium, where it was to play for almost two decades.
There he was introduced to New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin, who was intrigued by Barnes and his art.
Sonny and wife
The film stars Seagal as Detective Mason Storm, who falls into a coma after being shot during a fire-fight that killed his wife Felicia and son Sonny.
Sascha Petrosevitch ( Steven Seagal ) is a car thief who's brought in by criminal Nick Frazier ( Jeffrey " Ja Rule " Atkins ) to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall ( Richard Bremmer ), who apparently shot and killed Sascha's wife.
: In 1917, Vito Corleone ( Robert De Niro ) lives in a tenement with his wife Carmela and son Sonny, and works in a New York grocery store owned by the father of a close friend.
At Christmastime, Sonny stumbles into an affair with Ruth Popper ( Leachman ), the depressed, middle-aged wife of his high-school coach, Coach Popper ( Bill Thurman ).
Sonny and Cher's dialogues were patterned after the successful nightclub routines of Louis Prima and Keely Smith: the happy-go-lucky husband squelched by a tart remark from the unamused wife.
There has been various speculation as to the subject of Lennon's affair: his friend Pete Shotton suggested a journalist of their acquaintance, possibly Maureen Cleave ( though Cleave has said that in all her encounters with Lennon there was " no pass "), while writer Philip Norman claimed that the woman was model Sonny Drane, the first wife of Beatles photographer Robert Freeman.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer was a daily newspaper founded on December 9, 1985 by publisher Eugenia Apóstol, columnist Max Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte ( wife of Speaker of House of the Representatives Feliciano " Sonny " Belmonte ) during the last days of the regime of the Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, becoming one of the first private newspapers to be established under the Marcos regime.
Although Sonny has a wife, Sandra, and four children, he frequently cheats on her with other women, including Lucy Mancini, who served as one of his sister's bridesmaids.
Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte ( wife of Quezon City Mayor Feliciano " Sonny " Belmonte ) established the broadsheet The Philippine Star, which currently ranks second in the Philippines in readership, circulation, and advertising.
Steven McCroskey ( Lloyd Bridges ), the air traffic controller, reveals that a passenger named Joe Seluchi ( Sonny Bono ) had boarded Mayflower One with a bomb in a briefcase, intending to commit suicide so that his wife can collect on insurance money.
Lockyer's wife gave birth to their first child, a boy named Sonny James, on 29 April 2010, a month out from State of Origin.
After the success of Sonny & Cher's " I Got You Babe " single, Bono decided to promote his wife as a solo act, producing her first full-length album himself.
By 2002, Alexis and Sonny have continued to bond, which leads to a one night stand witnessed by Carly Corinthos, Sonny ’ s estranged wife at the time.
Although being the wife of Sonny Mehta, head of the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publishing house, keeps her in the publishing limelight, she has emerged a writer in her own right.
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