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It is as if the vicious hound of the Baskervilles that burst upon Sherlock Holmes out of the fog has returned to haunt the streets of America. The creature last week attacked a 71-year-old woman in Stone Mountain, Ga., dragging her across her driveway and savaging her so...
When Robert Holmes a Court comes calling, most corporate chiefs hide the company silver. A sly and extraordinarily patient Australian financier, Holmes a Court has built Bell Group, a $2 billion corporate empire that reaches from oil and gas interests near Tasmania to theaters in London's West End, by...
Holmes a Court, 49, made an initial move three months ago, after Texaco was forced into bankruptcy proceedings by its debilitating legal battle with Pennzoil. He announced that he had paid $541 million for 6.4% of Texaco's 242 million outstanding shares "exclusively for purposes of investment." Wall Street experts...
Born in South Africa, the son of a prosperous British rancher, Holmes a Court (the family name dates from the Norman Conquest in 1066) studied law in Perth, in western Australia, and decided to settle there. But the young attorney hit his stride once he got into investing. Often underestimated...
Holmes a Court's accumulation of Texaco's stock may be nothing more than a shrewd gamble on the firm's long-term health and its ability to reach a settlement with Pennzoil. Looking at the company's substantial oil and gas reserves and other holdings, most financial analysts think...