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...Hubbard, a Texas glassmaking mogul and owner of tracks in Kansas and New Mexico. Hubbard launched a proxy battle last November to gain control of the company's board and install new management, complaining that the company has lost $27 million in the past three years. Everett supporters like Merv Griffin counter that she has brought many innovations to the track, including simulcasting of events...
...seed of his current trouble was planted in 1987, when Trump got tangled in a bruising takeover battle with another tycoon, Merv Griffin, for control of Resorts International. In a deal they both claimed as a victory, the two split up the company, with Griffin taking most of Resorts and Trump getting the uncompleted Taj Mahal. Griffin's older, debt-laden properties went into bankruptcy only two years later. Trump had to borrow an estimated $1 billion to finish the monstrous Taj. Ominously, the city's casino business, which had grown pell-mell during the '80s, abruptly stagnated...
...would have to cheer loudly because Gorbachev is a very good student. His handling of the situation in Lithuania is reminiscent of Donald Trump's battle with Merv Griffin over casinos in Atlantic City...
Most of the time, however, the conversation on The Arsenio Hall Show is just what you'd expect from a talk show that bills itself as a party: lots of small talk, much of it boring. Hall's show-biz gush rivals Merv Griffin's or Rivers' at their most unctuous. His treatment of guests is overly deferential, his questions stultifying softballs. ("Let's talk about pet peeves," ran a setup for Kirstie Alley.) The talk on Carson's Tonight show may be programmed and artificial, but at least it gives the illusion of a real conversation. Hall seems tied...
Milken's creation had fallen on hard times even before the Campeau mess. So far this year, borrowers have defaulted on a record $3.2 billion worth of junk bonds, already $1 billion more than during all 1988. Among the notable casualties was Merv Griffin's Resorts International, which conceded last month that it could not meet its annual interest and principal payments of $133 million...