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...most memorable character: Rockefeller's father, William Avery Rockefeller, a backwoods mountebank and snake-oil pitchman whose history John D. tried to suppress. "Big Bill" Rockefeller, crack shot and con artist, claimed to be a medical doctor and, in the gullible towns of upstate New York and farther west, promised to cure any cancer for $25. Eventually, "Doc" Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when...
...Project to Promote Competition Innovation in the Digital Age, a group of Microsoft rivals that will pursue its lofty goal by urging the authorities to sue Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney, ex-FTC general counsel Kevin Arquit and Powell Tate, the p.r. firm headed by Carter White House vet Jody Powell and onetime Reagan aide Sheila Tate...
...Bernard Ebbers, a former high school basketball coach, helped found WorldCom in 1983 to sell long-distance service. He has since put up numbers worthy of company pitchman Michael Jordan. Anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would have a holding worth $2,400 today. No telecom company has done better. WorldCom has rung up that performance by connecting an astonishing range of deals. The largest was last year's $12.5 billion acquisition of MFS Communications, a local phone company that had just acquired UUNet. Yet WorldCom remains a little-known empire that...
Brilliant Pepsi Peddles the useless Quixotic venture pitchman lured to Newton, while capitalist, still make Apple soda-pop Microsoft eats looking for a hit popular firm's lunch...
...STEIN is no Einstein, but the Nixon speechwriter, Pepperdine University law professor and eye-ointment pitchman is willing to bet his salary he knows more than most folks. Stein will star in a new TV show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, where contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council...