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...Buettner-Janusch had a great zest for life, for all the beautiful things. Everything he did had an exaggerated, posh New York air," Gary says...
...Great Gatsby style of these affairs, the posh aristocratic excesses of Buettner-Janusch's daily life, made it all the more difficult for many to believe the accusations of wrongdoing. Indeed, some say that his luxurious lifestyle contributed to the university's continued support of Buettner-Janusch in the face of faculty criticism and, eventually, accusations of drug manufacturing. When the chairman was indicted for making LSD and Quaaludes in his lab, NYU refused to suspend him, saying they preferred to wait before making a decision on the future of this valued member of their staff...
...walls seemed to be closing in on their firm, Texaco's DeCrane and Kinnear, along with Lead Attorney Boies and a legion of advisers and secretaries, arrived in Houston on Monday night for their confrontation with Pennzoil. They settled into Lamar Towers, a posh condominium development. On Tuesday afternoon at 1, Liedtke arrived with his corporate and legal staff, including former Pennzoil President Baine Kerr and Lead Attorney Jamail...
...resting in the posh basement office retained for the highly influential post of Ibis of the Harvard Lampoon, still cursing myself for failing to massage the buttocks of enough people to guarantee my presidency of the humor magazine, I was disturbed by the incessant noise of our galley-slave dragging his lead ball and chains ever closer to my door...
...soaring life-style that perhaps brought the downfall of Martin Siegel. Besides keeping a posh Manhattan apartment, he and his wife built a spectacular cedar-and-glass beachfront home on Connecticut's Long Island Sound, complete with tennis court and gym. He typically commuted to work in a chartered helicopter. Siegel reportedly met with Boesky in New York City's Harvard Club in 1982 and bemoaned his compensation at Kidder, Peabody, which he viewed as inadequate even though it was already well into six figures. That lunch date allegedly led to the tip-selling arrangement in which Siegel boosted...