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...months, Kroh has virtually collapsed. Beset by lawsuits and shunned by wary lenders, the company is now struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 provisions of the bankruptcy law. The brothers who ran the firm for 18 years -- John Kroh Jr., 46, and George Kroh, 49 -- have resigned, and a battalion of lawyers is trying to sort out the company's obligations to more than 2,000 creditors...
...with hand-drawn maps and sketches of military installations hidden in his socks. He was promptly accused of spying. The self-styled mercenary, described by former colleagues as having a Rambo complex, claimed that he was the sole surviving member of an anti-Communist fighting force called the Phoenix Battalion...
...subsequent interviews, Hall denied he was working for the U.S. government but said he was paid $12,500 for his selfproclaimed secret mission and worked for a previously unheard of organization he called the Phoenix Battalion...
Limousines glide up to the curb on Manhattan's East Side, disgorging a platoon, perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...
...Abraham Lincoln Brigade, actually a battalion, was organized by a group of Americans in the 1930s to fight on the side of Spanish partisans against the fascist Gen. Francisco Franco...