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...Lincoln-appointed board members had any background in the visual arts. Never had a collection of such quality been controlled by such a quintet of aesthetic ignoramuses. To help in its deliberations, the board appointed an advisory committee. Its honorary chairman was the publishing mogul and collector Walter Annenberg. It included several museum professionals and one art dealer, Richard Feigen...
Close reading of the Citibank ad tells the tale. But if my friend the Wall Street mogul didn't get it, how many widows and orphans will...
Anyone who thinks interactive television will change the world (and entertainment mogul Barry Diller recently bought into a video shopping network on just this premise) must regard the Home Shopping Network with some awe. It was the first major firm to take orders over the phone while selling its products on TV, and when it debuted on cable in 1982 it was an instant and wild success. The company has faltered in recent years, however, and now faces problems much worse than business reversals...
SHOW BUSINESS: The Ultimate Mogul...
...face plastered all over the cover of Tuesday's New York Post, the newspaper he founded in 1801 -- with a huge tear dripping down his cheek. The tear had been planted there by mutinous editors at the famously sleazy tabloid who refused to relinquish control to real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld, the latest multimillionaire to attempt to take over the paper. In 20 pages of nonstop abuse, Post staffers described Hirschfeld as a "nut," a racist, a deplorable landlord, a hostage taker, a sociopath and an anti-Semite -- a daring allegation, given that Hirschfeld is Jewish...