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...Bergerac, a man of broad intellectual interests?art, architecture, African geography and history ?clearly is fascinated...
...Bergerac leave ITT to head a much smaller, though still giant, company? One reason may have been the grind of ITT. Geneen drove his executives at a frenzied pace; in Brussels, Bergerac worked about 80 hours a week. Geneen also conducted marathon monthly meetings that sometimes lasted for four days, at which subordinates were expected to spout reams of figures on cue and might be publicly humiliated by the boss if they could not do it. Associates remember Bergerac as always smiling and calm in this pressure cooker, but they cannot imagine that he enjoyed...
...Bergerac will now work as late into the night as may be required at the Revlon headquarters in Manhattan's General Motors Building (known as General Odors because several cosmetics firms are perched there). But he believes that "if one gets completely immersed in work seven days a week, one loses his balance and that is not good." So he insists on leaving weekends free to take his wife and daughter Mary Jennifer, 20,* to the theater or to his 300-acre Fox Ridge Farm in upstate New York. There, Bergerac has surrounded himself with a menagerie: dogs, ducks, goats...
...farm is not a commercial venture. Bergerac simply loves animals and delights in feeding lettuce to a goat named Dudley by hand. He sees no inconsistency in also being a big-game hunter who takes his family on an African safari almost every year; he considers Kenya the most beautiful place in the world. At Revlon, he has fixed up a sanctuary next to the lavish chairman's office: an African room decorated with an antelope-skin rug and a huge mural of Kenyan plains showing giraffe, zebra, water buffalo and other animals and that he can gaze...
...induce Bergerac to switch companies, Revson offered him one of the lushest deals hi corporate history: a $1.5 million bonus just to sign, plus $325,000 a year guaranteed, plus some incentive payments geared to the growth of sales and profits. Last year Bergerac collected $794,000. The deal for a while caused the financial press to call Bergerac by the spectacularly inappropriate nickname of "Catfish," after Catfish Hunter, the pitcher whom the Yankees signed to another seven-figure contract at about the same time. Oddly, in Brussels, Bergerac presented himself as an American executive called Mike; back...