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...annual meeting of another company, Canada Dry. Though its directors had rebuffed his bid for a board seat just a year ago, he showed up last week not only as a director but also as a prominent spokesman at the meeting. Far from acting like the feisty raider that he is often accused of being, he gracefully accepted a statement by President Roy W. Moore Jr. that Canada Dry's next quarterly earnings would drop because of a $3,000,000 outlay to promote a grapefruit drink named Wink. (President Moore, sipping Wink while speaking, at one point...
Simon has improved practically every company that he has gone into and, since he has never sold any of his major acquisitions, denies with some justice the common charge that he is a raider. Says he: "We wouldn't even come close to raiding, but this is used as a demagogic epithet by inadequate managements as their way of keeping their position. In a situation like Swift, which has leadership in the meat-and-carton industry and yet shows a consistently low return on investment, what has happened in the way of management over the past 30 or 40 years...
Behind closed doors?and occasionally in public?Simon can become pretty rough with the men who get in his way. He knocks heads together mercilessly, usually replaces the old team with his own men (he is an unabashed raider of other companies' personnel, has already hired away 15 executives for Wheeling from other steel companies), gets so impatient that he frequently pounds the table and yells. Says Jean Fowles, whose husband sold Manhattan's Duveen Gallery to Simon for $15 million last year: "The thing about Norton is that he's terribly impatient with stupidity. When someone insists that 'this...
...Wouk is writing for grownups, and he has a murky, modern, antiromantic intelligence. The promise of enchantment is fulfilled only in irony. His coral cuts, his sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies. His ocean has sharks and floating garbage. His only pirate is a boozy, busted corporate raider named Lester Atlas, who staggers into every scene with a yo-ho-ho and a rum and tonic. His hero is a middle-aged (49) New York Jew with a heart condition. The result is not romance but farce laced with tears...
...search for a replacement for retiring Law Dean Carl B. Spaeth, Stanford University managed to main tain its record as a ferocious raider of Ivy League faculties. Yale's bright, articulate Bayless Manning, 41, rolled into Palo Alto last summer completely equipped with wife, four children, a black Porsche sports car, a worn set of Shakespeare, an Egyptian statue, a dagger that had been used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already...