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...York is to regain its rightful place in the nightclub vanguard: "London has taken the lead from us. There's always excitement in the air. In New York there's only air pollution." But to 33-year-old Bachelor Stevenson, who has already dabbled in Wall Street (Lazard Freres), educational films, Caribbean real estate, and an unsuccessful antique-car rental service, Cheetah is "an investment that I know will be a success." To reporters he elaborated: "I'm not a nightclub man, and the music drives me out of my mind, but I have inordinately good taste...
...encounters with corporate secrecy led to Eurofinance's founding in 1961. A graduate of France's Institut d'Etudes Politiques, he also took law and economics degrees at the University of Paris and studied at Harvard's Public Administration School before going to work for Lazard Frères in Paris as an investment analyst. Alexandre soon became disturbed by the obstacles that traditional business secrecy placed in the path of expanding business activity. He decided to shatter the secrecy with an organization that would function partly like a Wall Street brokerage house and, by necessity...
...offer was not only financially intriguing-$15 million for 18% of a company that has not paid a dividend in a decade-but it came wrapped in mystery. On behalf of an unnamed investor, the venerable Manhattan investment-banking firms of Lehman Bros, and Lazard Freres announced that they would pay $30 a share, $3.25 above the market price, for up to 500,000 shares of Studebaker Corp...
Among individuals, contributions include $209,000 from Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, $250,000 from Andre Meyer, senior partner in Wall Street's brokerage firm of Lazard Freres, and amounts ranging down to loose change from 55,000 others. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has pledged $2,000,000. From abroad, gifts have come in from the governments of Venezuela ($100,000), Liberia ($25,000), and Puerto Rico ($100,000). The list of business donors includes IBM ($350,000), Continental Air Lines ($100,000), and Fiat Motor Co. of Italy ($50,000, and an additional $50,000 from Fiat Vice President Giovanni...
London's Lazard Bros. & Co. But the company's operational boss is brilliant Engineer James D. Pearson. 54, and of its 13 directors, ten hold engineering degrees...