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...board meetings of QVC and CBS approached, the Robertses summoned Lazard Freres investment bankers Steven Rattner and Felix Rohatyn to Comcast's Philadelphia offices on Friday, July 8. Rattner flew in from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Rohatyn was fetched in a Comcast plane from his summer retreat on Long Island, New York. The talk centered on financing the Comcast bid, with Brian Roberts nonetheless repeatedly asking, "Are we doing this only because we're angry?" After securing a $1 billion line of credit from the Bank of New York last Monday, the Robertses were ready to strike. They began...
...more popular way to reach the public directly is through winery-sponsored "clubs." Sterling Vineyard's Collections Club and Grgich Hills' Pre- Release Club, for example, publish newsletters that provide subscribers with discounts on newly released wines and "library" selections of wines in limited production. Sterling, which is owned by Seagram's, recently offered its club members two new Italian wines that the company represents and markets in the U.S.: a white Pinot Grigio and a red Sangiovese. "We're trying to 'loyalize' our customers," says Samuel Bronfman II, president of Seagram's Classics Wine Co. "We also want...
...office said he will return from Israel on July 1 and proceed directly to Martha's Vineyard. There, the professor will catch up on a "very heavy writing load," according to a woman identifying herself as his secretary...
...including her $3.5 million apartment -- amounting to nearly $8 million, and $15 million to $20 million in stock.) An acquaintance of Jack Kennedy's, the Belgian-born Tempelsman, 64, eventually moved into her Fifth Avenue flat and shared her life at her $2 million summer spread in Martha's Vineyard...
With close relations to her children and grandchildren, a history of good health, a job she loved and a congenial companion, she had seemed set for a happy old age. She summered on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where she had three traditional saltbox houses side by side set on 350 beachfront acres, with two large ponds and a bird sanctuary. There she would quietly entertain old friends like the author William Styron and the influential Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan and Lady Bird Johnson. Each Labor Day weekend, Onassis would have all the Kennedys from Hyannis Port over...