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BORN: March 29, 1933, Indianapolis EDUCATION: Purdue U, B.S., 1955; Butler U, M.S., 1979 FAMILY: Widow; five children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Investment broker; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Indiana Senate, 1980-92 ADDRESS: 425 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis...
Running as an "Emercrat," Bill Emerson had been the first Republican to carry the Eighth District in 50 years. Lung cancer took the eight-term Congressman's life this year, and his widow is the G.O.P. nominee in a "special election" to finish his term, which officially ends in January. However, in a bizarre electoral twist, she is also running--as an Independent, on the same day--to win the seat for the next term...
...businesses, Lewis has made a habit of defying the odds. Following the death in January 1993 of her husband Reginald (Reg) Lewis--the African-American tycoon who demolished the Wall Street color line in 1987 by buying Beatrice International for $1 billion--it was widely assumed that his widow would remain secluded as majority shareholder and silent partner...
...greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While Reg was a master of complex financing, Loida keeps a chalkboard near her desk, on which she writes down the names of individual managers along with their assigned tasks, erasing each entry as the job is completed...
THOMAS MCCARROLL'S interest in TLC Beatrice, the minority-owned global food company, dates from his first meeting with founder Reginald Lewis in 1988, when Lewis was selling assets to finance his $1 billion leveraged buyout of the company. Only later did McCarroll meet Lewis' wife (and now widow) Loida, whose successful turnaround of the company is the subject of this week's story. "She's just as smart, savvy and shrewd as the next guy, but without all the macho and bluster," says McCarroll, who has covered his share of corporate movers and shakers, including Bill Gates, Michael Milken...