In fact, the format was so compelling, and the opportunity to meet
dozens of prospective investors in one jam - packed day was so hard to pass up, that several founders who had never before skied went
out in the weeks before the event and took their first
lessons so they could come
out and participate.
In his pursuit
of 30 wins, McLain zoomed about in Lear jets, played Hammond organs, swigged Pepsi - Colas, schmoozed with Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Joey Bishop, Glen Campbell and the Smothers Brothers, changed his hair color, appeared on the covers
of TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, recorded an album, gave organ
lessons out of his home to two
dozen students at $ 3.50 an hour and got himself booked in advance into the Riviera in Vegas, the Detroit Auto Show, Disneyland and a hundred other places to play electric keyboard with his band come winter.