This Wall Street Journal obit rues the passing of the "good old times" when people made fortunes by making tangible goods, and rues their replacement with
loud-mouth wealth — Trump, The Real Housewives, Mark Cuban– the story of William Cook is worth remembering.
It quotes a Times obituary that explains Cook invented a
catheter and other Cook products “supported the many innovative new minimally invasive therapies that have profoundly revolutionized medicine,” the Society of Interventional Radiology said last week.
Fittingly, accompanying the Times obit is a picture of one of the most
loud mouth celebrities of the contemporary day:
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The WSJ writers end his remembrance wistfully: Maybe Americans wouldn’t resent the rich so much if more of them were like Mr. Cook.
Mr. Cook fit no obvious category. He sometimes drove the bus that took his friend, the singer John Mellencamp, on tour.
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