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...would-be acquisitors. Lately a new strategy seems to be gaining favor: paying gobs of borrowed money to all stockholders, including unwelcome suitors, in a maneuver known as recapitalization. The idea is to create a debt-burdened company less attractive to raiders. Last week both publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986 revenues: $1.3 billion), of Orlando, and travel conglomerate Allegis (1986 revenues: $9.2 billion), of Elk Grove Township, Ill., made use of this shark repellent to fend off marauders...
...Mark Twain to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was the target of at least two takeover bids. Without so much as a rumor, Murdoch swept in with a bid of $65 a share, clobbering a $34 offer from Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross and the $50 price proposed by rival publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harper & Row quickly accepted the $300 million deal last week...
Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross stands to earn a windfall after making a play last week for Harper & Row. Cross, who is already Harper's leading shareholder with 6% of the stock, offered $150 million for the rest of the book-publishing company. One day later Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, a publishing conglomerate, bid $220 million...
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...preeminent interpreter of Italian prose, is a Virginian who lives and works in the Italian hill country between Arezzo and Siena. To prevent his English from becoming too Italianized, he makes yearly trips to New York City, where he consults with his most "nurturing" publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's Helen Wolff. When Weaver is not translating such writers as Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino, he reads vast quantities of American mysteries, which he reviews for the London Financial Times. "Crime books," he maintains, "are very good at keeping you abreast of what people are saying back home...