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...least from a fiduciary point of view. Its unlikely heroine turns out to be none other than Elvis' "child bride," Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, who divorced him in 1973 but took over EPE six years later as trustee for their young daughter Lisa Marie. (EPE was and is the operating arm of the trust that owns the Presley estate.) At the time, the company's principal asset was dead, his shockingly modest estate of $4.5 million was rapidly dwindling, and his popularity was in sharp decline. As the company struggled through the courts to regain control over the name, image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE ME LEGAL TENDER | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT&T UNPLUGS A CEO-TO-BE | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...city of Cambridge's protectionist arm, the CHC shields historic properties from "inappropriate" development and uses its demolition permits and landmarking powers as bargaining chips during negotiations...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Andrew K. Mandel, S | Title: Progress, History Jostle for Space in Square | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Irabu's appetite is in the best Ruthian tradition. He differs from Yankees past and present, however, in his physiological beliefs. Irabu, who has his own trainer, tapes tiny magnets to various pressure points on his throwing arm and body; they supposedly improve his circulation in the same way that acupuncture does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO SEX, PLEASE | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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