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Posted AT 9:04 AM EDT on 10/05/08

Lessons (and laughs) from the Odd Couple of business

GORDON PITTS

Globe and Mail Update

When Peter Munk met David Gilmour, they were pursuing the same young woman in a downtown Toronto restaurant called, appropriately, Diana Sweets. For Mr. Munk and Mr. Gilmour, the product of that quest was a life-long attachment — not to the young woman, who shall remain nameless, but to business, new venture ideas, and, to some extent, each other.

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