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...replacements to Mockler or Phillips were named. Robert J. Murray, 49, who has been chair of the board of management at Braun AG, a Gillette subsidiary, will replace Symons on January...
...depiction in Fredric Dannen's new best seller, Hit Men, a graphic portrayal of the music industry's seamy underside. In the book, Yetnikoff comes off as a crude, tantrum-throwing and philandering egomaniac. "He's a brilliant man with a strong self-destructive streak," contends Dannen. Says David Braun, a top music lawyer in Los Angeles: "Walter got lost in the fantasy of his job, his power and his ability to control a huge part of the pop culture...
Growing up in Shelby, Mont., Horner collected his first dinosaur fossil at the age of eight, and he set out in high school to become either a paleontologist or the next Wernher Von Braun. His schoolwork was wretched, but he excelled at science projects. One, presented to a small group of bored adults at the local airport, was an experiment to track the flight of a homemade rocket. It went up 15,000 ft. at a velocity of 800 m.p.h., and the memory of his gaping elders still gratifies Horner, who scraped through high school with a D average...
...characteristic blast, Aurel Braun and Richard Day, two respected political scientists at the University of Toronto's Center for Russian and East European Studies, recently called Gorbachev a loser who has been "mishandling reforms and desperately trying to cling to power." Variations on that theme, usually delivered more in sorrow than in anger, are gaining currency. A veteran of the U.S. intelligence community last week said Gorbachev's "blunders are plunging Russia into a new Time of Troubles." That is an ominous reference to nearly a decade of Kremlin intrigue, civil unrest and international conflict in the 17th century...
...Hitler's unstable niece Geli Raubal, the only woman he ever truly loved. It was a sad and unfulfilled affair. On a September evening in 1931, after an argument with & her uncle, Raubal fatally shot herself. He had only one subsequent lover, a young blond named Eva Braun. In 1932, frustrated by Hitler's inattention, she also aimed a pistol at herself, but the attempt failed. Nearly 13 years later, under Berlin's streets, the drama would be eerily restaged when Hitler took Braun for his bride, 40 hours before their double suicide by pistol, poison and flames...