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FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing, the pen name of the author of Lloyd: What Happened (Crown; 416 pages; $25.95), has a day job as a manager for a big media company. So unlike most business journalists, he has experience with the kinds of ugly transactions the rest of us merely chronicle...
This is the world that our protagonist, Lloyd, inhabits. "You don't do this deal because it makes sense," says Lloyd's boss, Doug; "you do it because it can be done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate...
...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...
...hunting and shooting targets," says neighbor Debbie Wilson. Hunting gear isn't uncommon in Jonesboro, but some parents were nevertheless wary of Drew, who was known to horse around with a hunting knife strapped to his side. "I didn't allow my Jenna to play with him," says neighbor Lloyd Brooks. "He was too rowdy...
...DIED. LLOYD BRIDGES, 85, protean actor and patriarch of an acting dynasty, whose myriad roles ranged from the dramatic (High Noon) to the slapstick (Airplane!) and, most famously, to the adventurous (Sea Hunt); in Los Angeles. As former Navy frogman and underwater gumshoe Mike Nelson in the 1950s television series, Bridges popularized skin diving, though he felt artistically hemmed in by his watery role and once mused, "If we could just get some way to do Hamlet underwater, I'd be happy." In later life he presided over the careers of sons Beau and Jeff, who got their start acting...