American Greetings Corp.

American Greetings, owner of Papyrus cards, goes private

2013-04-01 09:34:00

American Greetings Corp., one of the key companies responsible for all those “Gotcha!” greeting cards you’re getting for April Fools’ Day, will be taken private by its founding family in an $878-million deal. The agreement with...

PASSINGS: Tom Wilson Sr., Jack Garner, Martha L. Willman

2011-09-22 00:00:00

Tom Wilson Sr. Creator of comic strip character Ziggy Tom Wilson Sr., 80, creator of the hard-luck comic strip character Ziggy, died of pneumonia Friday at a Cincinnati hospital, his family said. Wilson was an artist at the American Greetings Corp....

Taylor Swift: the next chapter

2010-10-24 00:00:00

Studio A at Capitol Records in Hollywood is the fabled place where Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Beach Boys and other stellar names in popular music made some of their most beloved recordings over the last half century. On an unseasonably pleasant...

The day ahead in business May 9

2013-05-09 03:30:00

Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 4, 7:30 a.m.; Wholesale inventories for March, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 9, 9 a.m.; Natural gas inventories for week ended May 4, 9:30 a.m. Local earnings: Allscripts Healthcare...

Google y Facebook quieren combatir estafas por correo electrónico

2012-01-31 19:17:00

Google, Facebook y otras grandes compa��as tecnol�gicas est�n dise�ando conjuntamente un sistema para combatir las estafas por correo electr�nico que apelan a la usurpaci�n de identidad. Esas estafas por correo electr�nico conocidas como "phishing"...

Driver's license question

2012-01-08 16:49:00

Question: I was involved in a car accident three years ago. The police officer on the scene thought I had a seizure, but I didn't. My license was suspended and I'd like to get it back, but PennDOT says I have to have an evaluation that costs $300. I don't...

Ziggy creator Tom Wilson Sr. dies at age 80

2011-09-19 13:44:00

CLEVELAND (AP) — The creator of hard-luck comic strip character Ziggy has died. Tom Wilson Sr. was 80. Spokesman Josh Peres with Universal Uclick, the Kansas City, Mo., syndication company formerly known as Universal Press Syndicate, says Wilson...

Anthony Francis 'Tony' Bufano, greeting card executive, dies

2011-07-19 13:49:35

Anthony Francis "Tony" Bufano, a retired greeting card executive and fisherman, died July 8 of heart failure at his Lochearn home. He was 83. The son of Italian immigrant parents, Mr. Bufano was born and raised in Scranton, Pa., where he graduated from...

Obituary: Gary Wayne Prewitt

2011-11-19 16:26:00

LANCASTER — Gary Wayne Prewitt, 62, of Cottage Ave. in Lancaster, died Friday at his home. Gary was born Oct. 21, 1949, to his late parents, J.H. Prewitt and Lucy Goins Prewitt. Survovors include his wife, Montie Arnold Prewitt. Gary retired from...

Jewel-Osco deals for the week of June 16

2011-06-15 00:27:00

Here are the top deals to be found at Chicago�Jewel-Osco�grocery stores for the week of June 16, with coupon matchups. I don't list every item from the Wednesday grocery ad, only those that are close to their low prices or those that have a good coupon...

Stanford pilot eager to fly plane he's building

2011-03-28 07:30:00

Jim Board took flight for the first time in the late 1940s in a Piper J-3 Cub — the airplane that taught many Americans to fly. A friend, who wasn’t much older than 10-year-old Board, used a Casey County farm pasture as his runway, and the...

Jewel-Osco grocery deals and coupon matchups for the week of Jan. 20

2011-01-19 13:13:00

Here are the top deals to be found at Chicago grocery stores Jewel-Osco for the week of Jan. 20, with coupon matchups. I don't list every item from the Wednesday grocery ad, only those that are close to their low prices or those that have a good coupon...

Two easy freebies at CVS this week: Buy a Cadbury Creme Egg for 87 cents, get 87 cents ExtraBucks back. ExtraBucks are like cash that you can spend on almost anything at CVS. Buy 3 American Greetings cards, get $3 ExtraBucks.

2012-01-28 00:00:00

Morry Weiss, then chief executive of American Greetings Corp., in a photo from 2000. The company said Monday that Weiss and the rest of the business' founding family would take American Greetings private.

2000-03-08 00:00:00