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...Wonderful Life. No doubt that was how the man who masterminded the merger of Time Inc. (which owns TIME) and Warner Communications wished to be perceived. But the Steve Ross who emerges in Master of the Game (Simon & Schuster; 395 pages; $25), New Yorker staff writer Connie Bruck's intelligent and fascinating biography, is composed equally of George Bailey, Don Corleone, Felix Krull and Oskar Schindler -- Steven Spielberg has said Ross was a model for the portrayal of Schindler in Schindler's List...
...Phoebe Bruck said their leaving the group was not part of an organized exodus from the CCA to the Cambridge Alliance. "This was not an organized move but something that had been building up for years," Phoebe Bruck said...
...alliance's new members are more pro development than the CCA's platform. Phoebe M. Bruck said she and her husband Frederick BVruck '41 left the CCA after 35 years because of ideological differences including the organization's position on economic development...
...benn increasingly controlled by rigid anti- development forces," said Phoebe Bruck, who calls herself an advocate of "sustainable development...
...image of Milken scrubbing floors and Peltz presiding over hundreds of millions is remarkable, at the least. As described in Connie Bruck's exceptional 1988 best seller, The Predators' Ball, Milken made Peltz. He suggested Peltz buy giant National Can, and then American Can, among others, and then floated the $3 billion in junk bonds for him to do it. Previously, Peltz had had a minor, mediocre business career. But soon the can business entered a profitable cycle, and Peltz, and his more highly regarded one-third partner Peter May, would be lionized on the cover of Business Week...