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...Lawyer Martin Lipton...
...Marty Lipton might have added that the courtroom has replaced the board room as the main jousting arena, and that whenever a company wants to stage-or defend against-a raid, its management usually calls up either of two New York lawyers. One is Lipton, a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The other is Joseph Flom, a partner in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Both experts in the exquisite art of making tempting offers or executing legalistic delays, they have opposed each other in most of the big-name raids of the past decade...
...they are squaring off again in an especially vitriolic takeover fight. While American Express Co. was secretly plotting its $880 million bid for McGraw-Hill, it quickly hired Joe Flom, 55, in part so that McGraw-Hill could not get him first. McGraw-Hill countered by hiring Lipton, 47. Says an investment banker who has worked with both: "On offense, Flom is a tiger. He pretends there isn't any law and acts accordingly. On defense, Lipton comes up with innovative, ground-breaking lawsuits...
...England, Coach Noel Cantwell said at last Sunday's opening game against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, "We're not a loose organization; we have strong financial support, and we have true professionals for players. They're conscious of the crowd and are out to please them." The Lipton Tea Company owns the franchise...
Nancy Morgan objected that the anagram was a "remuddling of an already felt confusion." His brother George, both a De Gramont and a brand manager for Lipton Tea, said that Morgan was throwing away a valuable brand name. (Sanche de Gramont had written several books, including an astringent national portrait, The French, and a good popular history of the Niger River, The Strong Brown God.) The author ignored all this and became Morgan...