Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closing in on him. In telephone conversations overheard by FBI agents on his tapped phone, he bragged indiscreetly to friends that he had enough money so that he would never have to work another day in his life, and moreover that he paid no taxes on his wealth. He also spoke of going back to Europe to attend to "two very serious business problems . . . I've been putting off for damn near two years." The trip, which federal agents presume was designed to sell more secrets, apparently was delayed by a new romance; after Schuler died, Harper in September...
Surprisingly, Newhouse hung on to his common shares. Owners of family held businesses frequently transfer their common stock to heirs to minimize estate taxes. But Newhouse apparently preferred to keep the wealth the common stock represented, together with control of his operations, until the time of his death. Such desire for dominance was typical of the diminutive (5-ft. 3-in.) Newhouse, who ran his empire without a headquarters, as if it were a family store. He once told an inter viewer that he had neither a desk nor files. And while Newhouse allowed his papers editorial freedom, he made...
...design. Nelson's own contribution includes his 1942 proposal to build downtown pedestrian malls and his 1944 invention of the storage wall that also serves as room divider. Nelson has created or inspired much of the modern officescape. This show reflects his ele gant functional flair, a wealth of material organized in a logical way that pulls the viewer through a sequence of open and narrow, straight and winding, busy and contemplative display areas...
...Creating Wealth, Allen...
...could still laugh at his jokes, marvel at his elegance (some say arrogance) and appreciate his steadfast defense of conventional conservatism. Sometimes it could appear almost comical, the notion as he presents it, that a naturally egalitarian society could better itself by arbitrarily endowing some minority with excess wealth. But the patrician Buckley, by fueling liberal notions of conservative insensitivity and snobbery-could make the most brilliant of his arguments impotent. For some that would be the biggest joke...