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More than a few Maxwell assets are probably headed for the auction block. Within days of his death, Maxwell Communication agreed to sell a 56% stake in Berlitz International to Japan's Fukutake Publishing for $265 million. But there is concern that the easy asset sales may all have been done, says Jeff Matthews of the New York City firm Rocker Partners, which has in the past sold short Maxwell stock. "Future sales might be distress sales," Matthews suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Death of A Tycoon | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...addition to the Daily Mirror, Maxwell controls Macmillan Publishing Co., Pergamon Press--the world's largest scientific publishing company, and the Berlitz School of Language. He has recently launched The European, an English language weekly newspaper, which caters to the 12 member countries of the European Community...

Author: By Leah F. Pisar, | Title: Bok, Maxwell Meet | 3/15/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard's way is the way you'd learn a foreign language if you were just thrown into the streets of Paris--it's like Berlitz," says Roman L. Weil, professor of accounting and director of the Institute of Professional Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "I don't teach Berlitz. It's not merely how to get along. We want to go deeper than that--we want our people to be leaders in their profession...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: A Hands-On Classroom at the B-School | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...purchase, to take effect in June, is part of a recent merger mania by Macmillan (1983 sales: $430.5 million), whose businesses include the Katharine Gibbs secretarial schools and the Berlitz language instruction programs. Macmillan last year acquired six companies, including three educational publishers. The latest takeover will strengthen Macmillan in such areas as children's books, reference works and college texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting a New Chapter | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Onstage, half a dozen Soviet groups belt out numbers in a Berlitz of languages, including English, Italian and French. As midnight slips by, the gray-uniformed police stationed by the amplifiers glower, but the beat goes on. Suddenly a combo swings into an Elvis Presley classic, and the fans roar along, "Mah bluh svade shoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grandchildren off the Revolution | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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