Posted on 01/15/2021 9:57:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
A wealthy, 89-year-old artificial sweetener magnate who made Sweet’N Low a household name has committed suicide by jumping from his Park Avenue apartment building, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Donald Tober, CEO and co-owner of the New York-based 1,400-employee Sugar Foods, leapt to his death just after 5 a.m. Friday, and was found in the courtyard of the luxury Upper East Side building between 65th and 66th streets, the sources said.
He was struggling with Parkinson’s disease, the sources said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
He was beloved and well-respected in his professional domain.
Tober was married Barbara Donovan Tober for 47 years since 1973.... The couple was known to be in a happy relationship who regularly engaged in philanthropic activities. They regularly donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, and the Juilliard School..... In fact, they co-founded the well-known Meals-on-Wheels program in New York City.
No longer sweet. Just low.
CC
No, it doesnt but many stevia products are contaminated by also adding artificial sweeteners.
HFCS is to be avoided. Your gut biome will be grateful.
Ziffel.
This is the second prominent one in four days.
But again, article didn’t mention if there was a balcony or not
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Picture in Post 40 and elsewhere indicates no balcony... had to have climbed out a window.
Lots of anti depressants have ‘suicidal ideation’ as a side effect.
There’s a State Trooper in Montana who is the spitting image of Frank Cady (Mr. Drucker)
He has a similar personality too. We were both laughing at some joke when he handed me the speeding ticket.
Very sad. This gentleman had two very high risk features for suicide: age and debilitating chronic medical condition. Remember Brian Keith the actor from Wind & Lion? Same thing.
“they co-founded the well-known Meals-on-Wheels program in New York City.”
Good people. Meals-on-Wheels has saved many lives, or at least, prolonged them.
Ah ok thanks, I missed that.
LOL
Hey hey hey
Watch the language.
This is a family friendly place.
You’re correct. It was a typo. I type at about 135 WPM, and that’s with one hand. So sometimes I get sloppy.
Btw, did you know he could write his name, change channels on a television set, play the piano, drink with a straw, deliver letters and newspapers, play cricket with a bat while predicting weather with his curly tail?
Also, I heard when he died, his ashes were placed in the casket of his trainer.
Oh, ziffel off.
I don’t type very many words per minute, and only with two fingers per hand.
Interesting facts about Arnold. I only remember the spelling of his name because there was a show where Lisa was on the phone and gave the spelling of Mr. Ziffel’s name as “Z-I-iffel-iffel-effel”, which for some reason has stuck in my head for decades.
Oh yeah!
Well, Eb to you, too!
LOL!
Oh, now you’ve gone too far.
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