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	TIME 100: Builders & Titans - Voracious, Inc.
		Rebels such as James Ling, founder of Ling-Temco-Vought, Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries (satirized as Engulf & Devour) and Harold Geneen of International Telephone and Telegraph stormed America's corporate towers even as students and protesters were laying siege to the nation's ivory towers.
		Astute risk takers and charismatic salesmen like Ling, Bluhdorn and Geneen were among the first to see the opportunities.
		Bluhdorn died on a company jet in 1983.
	www.time.com /time/time100/builder/other/conglomerates.html (790 words)

	TIME 100: Builders & Titans - Voracious, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rebels such as James Ling, founder of Ling-Temco-Vought, Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries (satirized as Engulf & Devour) and Harold Geneen of International Telephone and Telegraph stormed America's corporate towers even as students and protesters were laying siege to the nation's ivory towers.
		Astute risk takers and charismatic salesmen like Ling, Bluhdorn and Geneen were among the first to see the opportunities.
		Bluhdorn died on a company jet in 1983.
	strsd.southwick.ma.us /site_index/time100/voracious.html (790 words)

	Fire and Ice, by Andrew Tobias
		Charles came back from his August cruise and had a fit, because he had been talking for a long time in a vague way about bringing out a hypoallergenic line, and now she had beaten him to it.
		Charles walks over to me, away from everybody else, and he puts his hand on my cheek and starts giving me a clip as if he's saying "Nice boy." Everybody's watching.
		And so it was Lauder, not Lyn, who led Charles to be more "social." Lauder, not Lyn, who lured him to the fl-tie affairs Ancky had always longed to go to.
	www.andrewtobias.com /fireandice18.html (4833 words)

	www.teamasia.com.ph
		When Ernest Hemingway’s editor at Charles Scribner and Sons died, "Hemingway neither recognized the immense value of (his) suggestions, enthusiasm, loyalty, and support to his work nor wasted a moment in suggesting that somebody else could take on the role," Mr.
		The sprawling empire was controlled by Charles G. Bluhdorn, "the most rapacious and ruthless of conglomerateurs," according to Mr.
		Bluhdorn was loath to interfere with the work of his senior executives not because he thought that was the enlightened thing to do, but so that when things went wrong, it was clear who had to go.
	www.teamasia.com /Media/1999/12271999.htm (942 words)

	Gulf and Western. Who is Gulf and Western? What is Gulf and Western? Where is Gulf and Western? Definition of Gulf and ...
		Gulf and Western Industries, for a number of years known as Gulf+Western, was a United States conglomerate whose legal successor is Viacom.
		Its prosaic origins date to a manufacturer named Michigan Bumper Co. founded in 1934, though Charles Bluhdorn treated his 1958 takeover of what was then Michigan Plating & Stamping as its "founding" for the purpose of later anniversaries.
		In 1983 Bluhdorn died on a plane en route home from the sugar plantation to New York headquarters, and the board bypassed president David Judelson and named senior vice president Martin S. Davis, who had come up through Paramount Pictures, as the new Chief Executive Officer.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Gulf_and_Western (178 words)

	Charles Evans Hughes — Infoplease.com
		Charles Evans Hughes: Bibliography - Bibliography Many of Hughes's addresses were published in The Pathway to Peace (1925), The...
		Charles Evans Hughes: Political and Diplomatic Career - Political and Diplomatic Career A graduate of Columbia law school, he was admitted to the bar in...
		Charles Evans Hughes: Supreme Court Chief Justice - Supreme Court Chief Justice In 1930, Hughes was appointed Chief Justice of the United States by...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0824454.html (246 words)

	NYCivic
		Bluhdorn donated the gallery to the City of New York, which used it as headquarters for the Department of Cultural Affairs.
		Bluhdorn died in February 1983, aboard an airplane while being flown to the United States for medical treatment, the same fate that had befallen the aviator and film producer Howard Hughes in April 1976.
		Bluhdorn and Bess Myerson, then Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, was displayed for many years in the lobby.
	www.nycivic.org /articles/050304.html (1398 words)

	Gulf + Western
		The Encyclopedia Britannica tells us the company was a corporation that was founded in 1958 by Charles Bluhdorn and became one of the most highly diversified conglomerates in the United States.
		…Eisner’s boss was the irrepressible Charles Bluhdorn, the chief executive of Gulf and Western.
		From this page we learn the details of his death: Charles Bluhdorn…; died of a heart attack on a corporate jet flying from the Dominican Republic to New York in February 1983…;.
	ruk.ca /article/330 (352 words)

	By Ethnicity \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Spaulding, Charles C. Vann, Robert L. Walker, Madam C. Walker, Maggie L. Winfrey, Oprah G. Hispanic
		Candler, Asa G. Cannon, Charles A. Cannon, James W. Carlisle, Floyd L. Carlson, Curtis L. Carlson, Edward E. Carnegie, Hattie
		Mars, Sr., Forrest E. Marshall, Charles D. Martin, Glenn L. Martino, Joseph A. Massey, Jack C. Mastin, Thomas W. Mather, William G. Mathile, Clayton L. Maxwell, Hamish
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/ethnicity (2321 words)

	Gulf and Western Industries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulf and Western Industries, for a number of years known as Gulf+Western, was a United States conglomerate.
		Its prosaic origins date to a manufacturer named Michigan Bumper Co. founded in 1934, though Charles Bluhdorn treated his 1958 takeover of what was then Michigan Plating and Stamping as its "founding" for the purpose of later anniversaries.
		Davis slimmed down the company's wilder diversifications and focussed it on communications.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_and_Western_Industries (210 words)

	DR1 - Daily News 06 December 1999
		The triplets, Alexandra, Olivia and Charles were born in June in a New York City hospital.
		Dominique Bluhdorn is the daughter of Charles Bluhdorn, the former founder of Gulf and Western Corporation and the Casa de Campo and Altos de Chavón complex in La Romana.
		Bluhdorn is credited as being the father of the Dominican tourism industry.
	www.dr1.com /news/1999/dnews120699.shtml (1866 words)

	Julie Andrews.tv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I told him that when I had a dinner with him in Paris, and he said, 'There's only one thing that's important: If this film is a success, you're a hero.
		Bluhdorn and I were in my hotel room, and when my friend turned on his equipment, it sucked up so much juice that while I was talking to Charlie, all the lights in the hotel went dim, as if somebody were being electrocuted.
		By that, I mean Charlie Bluhdorn's giving directives and Bob Evans', who'd hardly made a movie before, being head of the studio.
	www.julieandrews.co.uk /article_playboy3_main.htm (2660 words)

	Forbes.com: Are All These Consultants Really Necessary? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Charles Bluhdorn, the late chairman of Gulf and Western Industries, was very much an old-fashioned, gut businessman.
		But with the ink scarcely dry on Bluhdorn's obituaries, his successors put a relatively small consulting job up for bids.
		Opinions differ, but PacTel's infatuation with consultants is certainly a lot more common than Bluhdorn's aversion to them.
	www.forbes.com /free_forbes/1983/1010/136.html (768 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Kid Stays in the Picture at Epinions.com
		Charles Bluhdorn, irascible new CEO of Gulf & Western, who was beginning the conglomeration of Hollywood, found it called to his attention and impulsively hired Evans to take over the London operation of Paramount Studios which he had just acquired.
		For instance, he begins to imitate Charlie Bluhdorn's Yiddish dialect, with a mixture of affection and wary fear.
		An equal opportunity fixer for Teamsters, Democrats or Republicans alike, it was Korshak who was instrumental in helping Ronald Reagan make the transition from a Democrat, a second-rate movie lead and a "liberal" President of the Screen Actors Guild into the Republican Governorship of California and on to the Presidency of the United States.
	www.epinions.com /content_73745337988 (3365 words)

	Kid Stays In the Picture, The (2002) - Who Is Robert Evans? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father, Archie, was a dentist who ran the first racially integrated dental clinic in America (in Harlem, north of the family's residence).
		Archie was married to Florence, with whom he had three children: Charles, Robert, and Alice.
		When Robert Evans was 12 years old, the family changed its surname to "Evans" as a tribute to Archie's dying mother (whose maiden name was Evan).
	www.cinema.com /films/7351/kid_stays_in_the_picture/articles/988/who_is_robert_evans.phtml (927 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He chronicles how the era gave rise to a cadre of imaginative, bold, and often ruthless entrepreneurs who took advantage of a buoyant stock market to create giant enterprises, often through the exchange of overvalued paper for real assets.
		Covering the period from the end of the war to 1983, the author explains why and how the conglomerate movement originated, how it mushroomed, and what caused its startling and rapid decline.
		The late Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf and Western, who is described as 'the most devious and shady of all the conglomerators,' emerges as the most complex of the corporate raiders.
	www.beardbooks.com /the_rise_and_fall_of_the_conglomerate_kings.html (1317 words)

	Self-Styled Siren: Perfume at the Movies I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This story concerns the first meeting between director William Friedkin (âThe French Connection,â âThe Exorcistâ) and Charles Bluhdorn, head of the Gulf + Western conglomerate, which owned Paramount Studios at the time.
		Friedkin, who had never met Bluhdorn, was the first one to arrive at his suite in the Essex House.
		âThat was my introduction to Charlie Bluhdorn, and he never got any saner as long as I knew him,â Friedkin recalls.
	selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com /2005/06/perfume-at-movies-i.html (936 words)

	'Kid' paints an irresistible self-portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like so many other players of this era, his downfall was cocaine: a habit he picked up late in his career, as a remedy, he says, for a pinched nerve.
		When he was busted for possession in the early '80s, his golden-boy reputation was irreparably tarnished and Bluhdorn never forgave him.
		Then came "The Cotton Club," which was supposed to be another "Godfather," but ate up most of his money and six years of his life, turned into a legendary flop and -- when one of his potential investors was found brutally murdered -- made Evans a Hollywood pariah.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/81894_kid09q.shtml (716 words)

	The Next Barry Diller Thriller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Just five years later he was head of prime time programming for ABC where he virtually invented the docudrama and created the Movie of the Week.
		Ten years after that Charles Bluhdorn hired him to be Chairman and CEO of Paramount Studios.
		He couldn't get along with Bluhdorn's successor, so in 1984 Diller left Paramount and became CEO over at Twentieth Century Fox.
	www.whqr.org /programs/postcards/2003_barrydiller.htm (668 words)

	Altos de Chavon - offers Art and Beauty for visitors to the Dominican Republic
		For it was the late Charles Bluhdorn, then the immensely wealthy president of Gulf & Western Corporation (the once massive US conglomerate that owned Paramount Pictures amongst many other companies) that had this 'Mediterranean village' built as a monumentally extravagant 'birthday present' for his daughter.
		Bluhdorn's enchanting 'folly' features winding cobblestone streets where numerous smaller galleries nestle, offering visitors the opportunity to practice such diverse artistic pursuits as jewelry making, macramé, print making and other handicrafts and to buy their own creations.
		Once here, like many others, the President of the company, Charles Bludhorn, fell in love with the beauty of the place, and consequently went on to build Altos de Chavon.
	www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com /altos-de-chavon.html (702 words)

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	www.kiwipedia.com /en/ch-index.html (170 words)

	Print Article: The Kid Stays in the Picture
		He didn't even have real producing experience when Charles Bluhdorn, head of Gulf + Western, plucked him from obscurity to run production at Paramount in 1966.
		Evans was a pretty boy from New York who'd been attracted by the glamour of Hollywood.
		To do that, his gravelly voice tells us on the soundtrack, you had to own the rights to something, so he bought Roderick Thorp's novel The Detective at proof stage for $US5000 and traded it to producer David Brown for a "three-picture deal and a suite of offices".
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/02/26/1046064099939.html (637 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Charles Bluhdorn (1926-1983): On Wall Street, Bludhorn was known as the ultimate wheeler-dealer.
		Robert Evans (1930-): Evans began his career in the women's clothing business, but was so handsome that one day he was spotted at the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel and cast to play the part of Irving Thalberg in The Man with a Thousand Faces, opposite James Cagney.
		Bob was a self-admitted failed leading man when Charles Bluhdorn took control of Paramount Pictures and named him head of production.
	www.slcfilmcenter.org /prog/2003/cort-synopsis.txt (1581 words)

	Charles G. and Yvette Bluhdorn Charitable Trust -- Taft Foundations and Corporate Giving Database
		The Charles G. and Yvette Bluhdorn Charitable Trust is part of the Taft Foundations and Corporate Giving Database which provides nearly 10,000 profiles of private and corporate foundations and giving programs.
		The Charles G. and Yvette Bluhdorn Charitable Trust record is a Foundation.
		Entries include funder name, sponsoring company information, contact information, financial summary, contributions summary, a list of officers and directors, application information, recent grant information for each foundation, and more.
	gale.ecnext.com /coms2/gd_taft_9999074 (120 words)

	La Romana
		Pete Dye designed the inland "Links" course and the "Dientes de Perro", (Teeth of the Dog), which provides spectacular views along the coast and seven holes right on the shoreline.Altos de Chavón, the artist village overlooking the Chavon River, recalls hillside villages of the south of France and Italy.
		Created by Charles Bluhdorn, the late founder and chairman of Gulf and Western, it was designed and "sculpted" in stone by Roberto Coppa, the Italian set designer, and today includes an impressive Archaeological Museum of Taino artifacts, the amphitheater, where international artists perform, and the Parsons School of Design.
		Some of the country's most spectacular beaches are found along the eastern shores.
	home.tiscali.nl /pjetax/country/la_romana.html (199 words)

	Top Mouse
		Their reign at that studio is the subject of some of the most entertaining pages of ''Work in Progress,'' in part because Eisner's boss was the irrepressible Charles Bluhdorn, the chief executive of Gulf and Western.
		We ought to get Dustin Hoffman involved.'' Then, Eisner reports, ''he suggested a 'Bad News Bears' sequel set in Cuba, in which Castro hits the winning home run.'' Ever the diplomat, Eisner made but one suggestion: the Americans ought to win.
		But Bluhdorn died in 1983, and his successor, Martin Davis, was more envious of Diller's and Eisner's growing celebrity than pleased by it.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/11/08/reviews/981108.08fabrikt.html (1017 words)

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		Davis’s view of governance comes from the perspective of a career that has had two very distinct chapters, which happen to parallel two major trends in corporate strategy in the last part of this century.
		Gulf & Western had been assembled by Charles Bluhdorn, a fiery Austrian who started his empire with a manufacturing outfit called Michigan Bumper.
		With a couple of exceptions, Bluhdorn’s former directors went along with all of this, willingly following Davis’s divestiture of all they had voted to assemble and agreeing to reshape the new company along the lines he wanted.
	www.boardmember.com /issues/archive.pl?A=1999_2/friends.raw (1858 words)

	Business Week Frontier
		But the former corporate tax specialist is no stranger to serious global business, and the one-time Nebraska farm boy says his devotion to the starchy root, also known as cassava or manioc, didn't arrive in some epiphany: "It came to me through the back door," he says.
		An 18-year career as an executive at Gulf+Western ended in 1983 after its chairman, Charles Bluhdorn, died, and the company began downsizing.
		Ritthaler formed a partnership, Argus International, with some former colleagues to manage and ultimately buy some industrial and commercial companies, and he moved to Caracas.
	www.businessweek.com /@@Ihl1jGYQFmpnAAYA/smallbiz/news/coladvice/reallife/rl980806.htm (1127 words)

	After 5 years, the WB and UPN still head in different directions
		To Diller's chagrin, Paramount pulled the plug six months before the venture was to make its debut.
		Studio chief Charles Bluhdorn worried PTVS would lose too much money, though the $40-million projection is less than 5 percent of the losses incurred by UPN thus far.
		Diller, Eisner and their team kept trying to revive the network, only to be thwarted by the late Martin Davis, who replaced Bluhdorn in 1983.
	faculty.washington.edu /baldasty/upn.htm (1064 words)

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