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...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...
...National Lampoon, circulation about 300,000. The latest issue features "I Temporarily Returned from the Dead and Went to Caroline Kennedy's Wedding," by Aristotle Onassis. National Lampoon's parent company, curiously known as National Lampoon Inc., lost $750,000 last year. That makes it remarkable that the firm has become a takeover target. In the past two weeks three suitors have bid up to $11. 3 million...
...eight. As a teenager, he delivered newspapers on horseback in Texarkana's black slums. In 1949 he enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was inspired by the can-do regimentation of the military. But after a four-year minimum Navy hitch, he resigned to join a firm synonymous with the kind of corporate bureaucracy Perot now claims to disdain...
...commissions. In 1962, after five years, he founded EDS with $1,000 in capital as a company to process computerized data for other businesses. EDS quickly found a niche processing medical-insurance forms for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. In 1968, when Perot took his firm public, its revenues were $7.7 million. He managed to persuade underwriters to float less than 10% of the company's stock for a price that was 118 times earnings. He kept most of the rest of the shares and was deemed a billionaire, at least on paper...
...condescending courtliness, Spokesman Larry Speakes said he would be leaving in two months. He is not, however, being driven away by the scandal. For months he has been negotiating for a $250,000-a-year job as head of public relations for Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street investment firm once headed by Donald Regan. When reporters asked how he could leave in the middle of a crisis, Speakes replied that two months would be "enough time to serve the President in the current situation...