Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vicki Morgan's accused killer goes on trial...
Much is known about Vicki Morgan's life, perhaps too much. For twelve years she was the lavishly kept mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale. The multimillionaire former head of Diners Club was part of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet," and his widow Betsy is a close friend of Nancy Reagan's. Shortly before Bloomingdale died of cancer in 1982, Morgan, then 29, filed a $5 million palimony suit that publicized the lurid details of their affair...
...more than a score, are the merger and acquisition specialists of the top American investment banks. They are the financiers of capitalism, raising funds for corporations with stock and bond issues, as well as trading securities for their own accounts. The best known of their breed was J.P. Morgan, the great financier who died in 1913. Morgan once wrote, "My job is more fun than being king, pope, or prime minister, for no one can turn me out of it, and I don't have to make any compromises with principles." He might have added that...
When companies clash in an unfriendly takeover, the bankers become field commanders, designing offensive and defensive maneuvers. The Morgan Stanley team, led by Joseph C. Fogg III, has advised Carter Hawley Hale, the California department-store chain, on strategies to protect itself from a $1.1 billion hostile takeover by The Limited, a fast-growing group of women's specialty stores. Carter Hawley Hale asked General Cinema, a group of movie theaters, to come to its aid by buying some of its preferred stock, and offered General Cinema one of its "crown jewels": the profitable Waldenbooks chain. Another part...
...television alter ego, Alexis Carrington, merely engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit they also played sweet post-60 grandmothers who toast each other over tea. Amid the treacle, it is reassuring to remember that the two femmes fatales still have plenty of that good old delicious malicious left in them...