Word: turner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday night, when most Harvard students will be taking advantage of the weekend before classes start, Marcia M. Turner '97 will be walking on stage in a black evening gown at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City...
...Turner, a government concentrator from Wenatchee, Wash. and a Lowell House resident, won the Miss Massachusetts Pageant earlier this year...
...some observers wonder what the lure is for Turner. "Why should he become vice chairman of a public company?" asks Mario Gabelli, whose Gabelli Funds owns a big wad of Time Warner stock. "To get dividends on his stock? I just don't see it. Sure, he's a poor billionaire--but he has run his own show for 20 years. It's got to be something else. I'd love to know what they're offering him, sotto voce...
...Malone, says an entertainment- industry executive who knows all the principals, "Levin and Malone don't get along" -a charge denied by a senior Time Warner executive. "When John talks, you'd better listen," continues the entertainment executive. "Malone and Turner will hold Levin's feet to the fire, which he won't like." Says another media analyst: "Buying Turner is the right strategic move, but personally Jerry is very brave. These guys are killers...
...Turner and Malone are certainly formidable adversaries when they choose to be. But maybe this time Levin can harness the killers as his own hired guns. "Turner and Levin are smart enough to know they need each other," says analyst Logsdon. If Michael Ovitz, the ultrapowerful chief of CAA, could go to work for Disney's Michael Eisner, then surely Ted Turner could take a seat on Gerald Levin's TW board as a buccaneer emeritus, and do his vision thing. "Ted isn't someone who comes in the office every day and sits at his desk," says...