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With five companies and $100 million in sales, Ledecky tried to secure financial backers to take the company public with a so-called “poof” Initial Public Offering, or IPO. But again, he faced rejection: the first 40 firms said no. When the 41st firm, Mabon Securities, finally agreed to back the company, Ledecky went to Fidelity Investments for financing...
...When Mabon went under within a month, Ledecky convinced Robert E. Grady ’79, also a Crimson editor and whom he knew from The Crimson sports cube, to convince his firm, Robertson Stevens, to back U.S. Office Products...
Starring Bill Mabon...
...making it the cheapest car in the U.S., its fortunes have been flagging. Americans bought only 43,000 of the glitch-prone subcompacts last year -- well below predictions made when the two-door hatchback was first imported from Yugoslavia in 1985. Now a consortium organized by the Mabon, Nugent investment firm in New York City has paid $40 million to gain control of Yugo America and has promised to spend $40 million more for a campaign to tout new models...
...live by the rules. Times may change; strictures remain for the fortunate few. No Friend Like a New Friend is set in the early 1960s. Frances Hamill, widow of an eminent lawyer, banker and adviser to Presidents, finds herself at a dinner party seated next to Manners Mabon, a short, fat, charming bachelor with no visible means of support. Before long, the matron and the dilettante are seen together constantly at art galleries and museums. People begin to talk, and Frances receives a painful reproof from her old friend Alice: "I thought it was important how we appeared...