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Megapuss is a new band, kind of. Its members are officially (and unofficially) Greg Rogove of New York based band Priestbird, Devendra Banhart of Devendra Banhart fame, Noah Georgeson, Human Giant humorist Aziz Ansari, and Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Moretti, Ansari, and Georgeson may not, however, actually be in the band. Some have called their new and first album “Surfing” a joke album, and some have termed it inspired, both of which could be wrong. Or right. To focus on issues such as these, though, would be missing the point. Megapuss isn?...
...WINNER! About 500 people accepted our challenge two weeks ago to write a parody of a nursery rhyme that dealt with a subject in the news. In a close competition, Cheryl Georgeson of Lincoln, Neb., prevailed, and will collect a coveted Notebook T shirt. Her entry parodied "Mary Had a Little Lamb...
...funds, which would be more likely to compare the tender-offer price with book value and reject it. But some Wall Streeters speculate that takeover attempts may soon be made against companies controlled by institutions that are getting tired of holding undervalued shares. Says William Chatlos, a partner in Georgeson & Co., a proxy solicitor: "For an extra nickel on the price, some of the institutions would sell out their grandmothers...
LESSON ONE. Acquire a monopoly of firepower. GAF management signed up three of the nation's four big proxy solicitation firms, which make battle plans as well as send out proxy statements, including by far the largest, Georgeson & Co. With its in-house computer, the only one in the business, Georgeson can tabulate signed proxy statements as they come in and quickly shift its attack to the proper flank. If support appears to be weak in, say, Western Ohio, the machine can print out a list of stockholders from that area for telephone canvassers to work on. Some...
Categorized Corporations. Indeed, acrimonious battles for company control have grown so common that Richard S. Nye, partner in the Manhattan proxy-soliciting firm of Georgeson & Co., says that "almost all corporations can be categorized as 'attackers,' 'attacked' or 'angels.' " To Indiana's Dodge Mfg. Corp., maker of power-transmission equipment, Cleveland's Reliance Electric & Engineering Co. has just become an angel. Confronted by an unwanted tender offer from Emerson Electric Co., Dodge two weeks ago worked out a stock-swap merger with Reliance...