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...Lehman, Kuhn Loeb merging...
...Willie Sutton supposedly gave for robbing banks -that's where the money is. For all the talk of capital shortages, notes Richard Johannesen Jr., vice president of Salomon Bros., "the U.S. market is one of the biggest capital pools in the world." Adds Edgar Koerner, managing director of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: "Borrowers can easily get $150 million and even $200 million for up to 20 years-terms that would be difficult in Europe." There, he explains, lenders do not have as much capital to advance and are reluctant to commit what they can lend for long periods on fixed...
...book is also filled with the kind of trivia for which sports fans go bonkers. Where else can you find out that Auerbach, coaching on the high school level in the early '40s, cut a kid named Bowie Kuhn because he was completely uncoordinated. Did you know that the Basketball Association of America's leading scorer in 1947-48 was none other than Max Zaslofsky of the Chicago Stags? Quick, who did Red coach between the Washington Caps and the Celtics. That's right, the Tri-Cities (as in Davenport, Rock Island, and Moline) Blackhawks...
Turner's reputation as the "Mouth of the South"-whether on land, at sea or hi Bowie Kuhn's hair-has tended to obscure his extraordinary sailing skill. He began to sail when, as a boy, he was too small and uncoordinated to excel at any other sport. "I didn't have a lot of natural athletic ability," says the immodest man modestly, "but this was a game that took nerves and brains and heart. And I had a lot of heart. I could hang in there." Hang in he did, and over the years, Turner emerged...
...given industry, arguing that the company could have entered the coal business by investing its own capital. After a five-year rear-guard battle against the FTC ruling in the courts, Kennecott's board, which includes such powers as John Schiff, chairman of the investment banking firm of Kuhn Loeb & Co., and Walter Page, president of Morgan Guaranty Trust, finally lopped off the coal business. Then it began considering ways to use the resulting billion-dollar bonanza. The board's conclusions: diversify into another business (possible targets: forest products and oil companies) and invest more in copper properties...