Word: baron
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There are also not one, but two cabinet makers, three farmers, an aspiring wine baron and a Buddhist teacher. And then there is the individual who quit his job and walked across America for 14 months...
Some of the newer business arrangements are especially troubling. At Harper's Bazaar, creative director Fabien Baron is also the owner of Baron & Baron, a design agency whose clients include Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss. Though his role at Bazaar is an influential one, Baron is technically a freelancer. This allows him to take on outside work, and his well-known arrangement raises few eyebrows. "I have no problem with this," says his boss, Tilberis. "Why is it a problem? Fabien Baron has nothing to do with placing ads or choosing the clothes that go in the magazine...
...Media baron Rupert Murdoch won akey battle to hold onto his Fox television networkwhen the Federal Communications Commission today allowed him to retain his eight TV station licenses. Murdoch had been accused of concealing the fact that his Australia-based News Corp. owned 99 percent of Fox when he sought permission a decade ago to acquire stations that formed the backbone of the network. To hold onto his victory, he'll still have to make a case that waiving foreign ownership restrictions would be in the public interest. Though the FCC found that Murdoch waited years to disclose the extent...
DIED. MARY CAPERTON BINGHAM, 90, philanthropist; in Louisville, Kentucky. Moments after acknowledging a Rotary dinner toast by saying, "The best thing would be for a big pink cloud to come down and take me away," Bingham collapsed from a heart attack. She was the widow of media baron Barry Bingham; his death in 1988 was preceded by a family-rending money spat among their children...
...well as Hugh McWearie, reappear from Davies' last novel, Murther and Walking Spirits; old Dunstan Ramsey steps out of The Deptford Trilogy for rather a lengthy visit, joined as well by his friend Boy Stanton (referred to in passing and not named, though the description matches the sugar baron), and we visit Salterton, site of Davies' first trilogy...