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...Kip A. Maylin '05 could have used a cup of coffee on the drive home from Alternative Spring Break in Alabama. At 4 a.m. Monday morning, on the home stretch down Memorial Drive, Kaylin glanced back to see the doors of the PBHA van flapping open. He frantically pulled over and jumped out of the driver's seat to close the doors. Unfortunately, he left the van in drive...
...recent advertising downturn clearly has taken its toll. Ad pages at Forbes magazine fell 49% between 2000 and last year. In an interview with TIME, Kip Forbes, the third eldest of the siblings (there are four brothers and a sister), dismissed speculation that the flagship might be listing. He conceded that revenue for Forbes Inc. was down in 2003 from the previous year but said there was "no connection" between the Faberge egg sale and the tough business climate that has depressed revenue at all business publications, from the Wall Street Journal to TIME's sister publication Fortune. Without elaborating...
...Kip also said proceeds from the Faberge sale, which included some 180 other works, would be put back into Forbes Inc. He said the first priority is to keep the magazine and its offshoots strong. "That's the goose, and we want to keep it laying eggs," Kip said...
Which is a fitting way to put things. When Kip was in eighth grade, he wrote a paper on Faberge, years before the first egg came into the Forbes fold. The eggs are important historical markers for Russians. Czar Alexander III commissioned the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Faberge in 1885 to make an Easter present for his wife. His son Nicholas II continued the tradition for more than 30 years. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks lost track of the eggs--there were probably 50--and when they reappeared in Western art markets (after being smuggled out of the country...
...Forbes family does not seem overly sad to lose the eggs. "We all appreciated them," Kip said. "But they were part of [Dad's] collecting passion." The kids have their own. Steve is a Churchill fan; Kip collects Napoleon III memorabilia. But it all begins with purging Dad's vault. And keeping the media empire running...