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...commands million-dollar fees for putting together megadollar agreements, Felix Rohatyn is the first among equals. As a senior partner at Lazard Freres, a New York investment-banking firm, he has presided over hundreds of mergers and acquisitions. In October, General Electric Chairman John Welch and RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw started talking about a merger over drinks at Rohatyn's Manhattan apartment...
...early-morning telephone call he made to Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Lazard Freres investment banking firm and one of Wall Street's leading merger specialists (see following story). "Can you arrange for me to meet Brad?" asked Welch. The Brad in question was RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 68, who is a friend of Rohatyn's. In early November Rohatyn invited the two men to have a drink in his New York City apartment. They talked about the defense business and the tough competition from the Japanese in consumer electronics. In addition, Welch spoke in general terms about...
...also scalded by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which left him with $34 million worth of dead summer air. Moreover, there was turmoil at the top of NBC's parent corporation, RCA: three presidents and four chairmen within a decade. It was not until the fifth chairman, Thornton Bradshaw, hired Tinker to run NBC in July 1981 that hope and trust were restored to the network. Says Steven Bochco, whose Hill Street Blues had been spawned by Silverman and produced by Tinker: "The day Grant went to NBC, the industry's attitude toward that network changed profoundly, overnight...
...Bradshaw said she was pleasantly surprised at the enthusiastic response among the athletic community. "Our problem now," she said. "Is that were being involved with students who want to get involved with the program and we don't have enough kids to go around." According Greene neither the directors nor Caulfield anticipated the large number of interested athletes after years of only moderate success...
Recently, however, Caulfield has been founding up kids left and right. Bradshaw said that with 25 new names, the directors are now assigning little brothers and sisters to several student locks who were placed on a, waiting first last fall...