Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since there are so few fully operational subs in existence, many maritime brokers felt sure they would know of the vessel if it were genuine. Argued a spokesman for H. Clarkson, the London ship brokers: "It's absolute nonsense." The U.S. Navy tried unsuccessfully to locate the sub's owner. By week's end the owner of the mystery vessel -- was it Captain Nemo? -- had not yet surfaced...
...imperious chairman, William Jovanovich, 67. Early last week the company's 15-member board voted to proceed with a $3 billion plan that will give each shareholder a package of special dividends and stock valued at more than $50 a share. The next day British Press Baron Robert Maxwell, owner of the London Daily Mirror, called off a $44-a-share takeover bid. Jovanovich had made the fight a battle of personalities. He called Maxwell's offer "preposterous" and declared the Fleet Street habitue "entirely unfit" to run Harcourt...
...legendary oasis for high-rolling power brokers and celebrity watchers, opened its famed iron gates after a four-month face-lift, a reported $8 million exercise in cosmetic surgery that included the premises, the food and the menu as well. The big question: Has "21" changed? Has the new owner-management team dared to alter the setting or, even worse, change the food? Do they still make the famous hamburger? And, in effect, will we still be able to love it and hate...
...eyes or a palate could possibly have thought the old place was really in good shape, or that the pricey food was anything more than dependably dreary. But nostalgia is a heady seasoning, and panic set in among habitues as soon as the word was out that the new owner, Marshall S. Cogan's Knoll International Holdings Inc., had turned the management over to Ken Aretsky and Anne Rosenzweig, the team behind Arcadia, a popular East Side boutique-restaurant celebrated for its new American cooking. Even more frightening to those accustomed to "21's" innocuous but soothing nursery dishes...
Jane Amsterdam, Manhattan,inc.'s founding editor, quit in March after complaining about interference from Publisher (and Owner) D. Herbert Lipson. According to insiders, Lipson wanted Amsterdam to meet with advertisers and sought more control over covers. Felker's challenge will be not only to sustain Amsterdam's success but to get along with Lipson. Felker's track record with owners is mixed: after first approaching Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch to buy shares in New York in 1976, he bitterly fought Murdoch's purchase of the magazine. When Murdoch prevailed, Felker quit...