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Fortune: ROSS JOHNSON: WHERE IS HE NOW?

You can't keep a rich man down. Aced out of control of RJR Nabisco in 1988, CEO F. Ross Johnson walked away with $56 million. In 1991 he teamed with conglomerateur David Mahoney and a partner to pa...

Fortune: WANTED: AN ACTOR TO PLAY HENRY KRAVIS

The makers of a made-for-TV movie based on Barbarians at the Gate, 1990's best-seller by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar on the RJR Nabisco takeover battle, have one key role to fill before filming ...

Fortune: THE DEAL OF THE DECADE HAD NO HEROES The RJR Nabisco buyout was drama enough for two books, and nobody comes out of either looki

Which kind of man is Ross Johnson: a greedy, political bastard, or a greedy, talented manager? For a contrast of judgments and just about everything else, see the two new books about the Great RJR ...

Fortune: THE $600 MILLION CIGARETTE SCAM By stocking up wholesalers with more smokes than they could promptly resell, RJR Nabisco created

IT LOOKED LIKE just one more announcement in a year of many. In September, RJR Nabisco declared that it would end the practice in domestic cigarette distribution known as trade loading. A startling...

Fortune: THE CEO'S SECOND WIFE Yes, she's typically younger than the first. Often she has a career of her own. But her primary job is rem

His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favor of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman; but she knew ...

Fortune: FORTUNE magazine contents page JANUARY 2, 1989 VOL. 119, NO. 1

SPECIAL REPORT/ Cover Stories 32 THE 25 MOST FASCINATING BUSINESS PEOPLE OF 1988 Remarkable in all sorts of ways, the men -- and one woman -- on this list are above all bold, willing to take risks ...

Fortune: 'GREED REALLY TURNS ME OFF' Henry Kravis tells how his firm won the RJR Nabisco deal, how safe an investment it is, and why Wash

FORGET about red-rimmed eyes. It is midmorning, a few hours since Henry Kravis won the $25 billion battle for RJR Nabisco, and his eyes seem red all over. Sipping constantly from a glass of water, ...

Fortune: LBOS GREED, GOOD BUSINESS -- OR BOTH? The outcry over these deals reflects way too much hysteria and far too little understandin

YES, there is some reason to be concerned about the pace and size of leveraged buyouts. The trend toward leverage, not only in LBOs but also in takeovers and on the balance sheets of ordinary compa...

Fortune: DIRECTORS ON THE SPOT

These are wrenching times for corporate directors. The current surge of takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations has put directors' decisions under a brighter spotlight than ever before....

Fortune: WHO WINS IN THE HUGEST DEALS? Philip Morris wants to grow by takeover, RJR Nabisco wants to shrink by going private. Wildly diff

THE TOBACCO industry. What a strange place for corporate America to fight out the nature of its future. Who could imagine such a clear, almost ideological clash of strategies? Such strikingly diver...

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