Word: pergamon
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...everyone shared Fletcher's now shattered faith in Captain Bob's empire and the media mogul's fitness as a manager. Two decades ago, British regulators investigating his 1969 attempt to sell Pergamon Press concluded in a report that the murky relationships among Maxwell's privately held businesses made him specifically unfit "to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." A principal author of that report, Sir Ronald Leach, now 84, said last week, "If anybody had taken the time and trouble to read and take notice of our report, they would have seen that what has been happening...
...Auschwitz. Having left for Budapest in 1939, he arrived in France early the following year and sailed to Liverpool a few months later. He won Britain's Military Cross in January 1945 for leading a platoon against a German defensive position. In London after the war, he launched Pergamon Press, a scientific publisher. In 1969 Maxwell lost the company in a scandal: he was charged with misrepresenting Pergamon's financial condition during a takeover battle. He recaptured the firm in 1974 and last March sold it to the Dutch publisher Elsevier for $765 million...
Robert Maxwell sailed into the turbulent New York City newspaper world with his eleventh-hour purchase of the ailing Daily News. But News editors beware! The British media magnate has shown some rather peculiar proclivities as a publisher. His Pergamon Press, soon to be sold to a Dutch firm, produced a World Leaders series that seemed to specialize in official or groveling accounts of dictators. All have since been discredited and relegated to history's scrap heap. Among the titles...
...death in a concentration camp. Wounded and captured in France, he escaped to Britain and joined its army at 16. After serving in postwar Berlin as a press officer (he speaks at least eight languages fluently), Maxwell acquired a small company in 1949 that he built into Pergamon Press, an important publisher of scientific and educational books...
...addition to the Daily Mirror, Maxwell controls Macmillan Publishing Co., Pergamon Press--the world's largest scientific publishing company, and the Berlitz School of Language. He has recently launched The European, an English language weekly newspaper, which caters to the 12 member countries of the European Community...