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...part-time student at Duke University, he might have been rated a Big Man on Campus. Enrolled in 1987 in the continuing- education program, he quickly became a campus celebrity. His moniker helped. The short, wavy-haired chap with the cosmopolitan air just happened to be Maurice de Rothschild, wayfaring scion of the rich and illustrious French banker, Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...turned out, no. At a Sigma Alpha Epsilon convention in Cincinnati last summer, Rothschild created such a vulgar scene complaining to the hotel desk that his fraternity brothers decided to check into his background. They learned that another guy named Rothschild had pulled off some funny business at the SAE chapter in Berkeley years before. After they demanded that he prove his identity, Maurice skipped town. He showed up in Bronxville, N.Y., to pick up his belongings from a rented room and has not been sighted since...
Last week Duke's campus daily, the Chronicle, reported that the phony Frenchman was Mario Cortez Jr., 37, of El Paso. In 1967, said the daily, he changed his name to Mauro Jeffery Rothschild. Wherever and whoever he may be, Rothschild left thousands of dollars in debts at Duke, including $14,000 owed to one friend and a $400 tab at the florist. He also left a legacy of stories that ought to last a generation at least...
...even the largest corporations. While all debt-laden acquisitions are risky, LBOs replace the stock on corporate balance sheets with loans that must be repaid, leaving executives with little room for error. "Running an LBO is different from running other companies," says Wilbur Ross, a senior managing director of Rothschild Inc., a New York City investment firm. "The reaction time at LBO companies has got to be a lot quicker, because they must generate cash fast enough to beat those interest-payment deadlines...
...woolly American phenomenon -- interesting at a distance but unacceptable at close range. Last week Sir James Goldsmith forced them to take another look by launching a surprise $21 billion hostile bid for B.A.T Industries (1988 revenues: $29 billion). Backed by investors Kerry Packer, the Australian industrialist, and Jacob Rothschild, the British financier, Goldsmith plans to break up the sprawling London-based conglomerate and "liberate" far-flung divisions that sell everything from cigarettes (Kool, Viceroy) to insurance in more than 40 countries...