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...TRUMP TAMER Switching from gabbing to grabbing, former talk-show host Merv Griffin outmaneuvered developer Donald Trump for control of Resorts International, the Atlantic City hotel-and-gambling company. The megarich Merv paid $364 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most of '88 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...essentially a riot with goalposts. When he was 16 his mother, a low-handicap amateur of Finnish descent, gave him two of Nicklaus' books. The boy read them and decided to give golf a try. It soon became clear that the late starter was a prodigy. Greg's father Merv recalls that he made "phenomenal progress," shooting par within 18 months of first picking up a golf club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golfer GREG NORMAN: Just Shy of the Top | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Star). Her name surfaced in Friday's San Francisco Chronicle, which carried a brief item speculating that she might be Mrs. Reagan's astrologer. Interviewed Saturday aboard a New York-San Francisco flight, Quigley told TIME that she was first introduced to Nancy Reagan by TV Talk Show Host Merv Griffin in the early 1970s, and has provided the Reagans with suggestions about the timing of various political events ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nancy Reagan's Astrologer | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Quigley, a wealthy Republican whose specialty is politics, is a frequent guest on the Merv Griffin show. She has been practicing astrology since the 1960s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regan Book Blasts First Lady | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Wall Street's handicappers seriously expected TV Tycoon Merv Griffin to win when he challenged Manhattan Developer Donald Trump for control of Atlantic City's Resorts International hotel and casino. But last week Griffin surprised anyone who doubted his dealmaking acumen. Settling a month-long wrangle, Trump agreed to go along with Griffin's offer to buy the company's outstanding stock, including the developer's majority share, for an estimated $300 million. In exchange, Griffin will sell Resorts' nearly completed Taj Mahal hotel-casino, other real estate and its fleet of helicopters to Trump, assets that the developer says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALS: Trump Meets His Match | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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