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Liss, Bill

Little, Brian D.

Loans

bridge
syndicated

Long, Jerry

Lovejoy, Robert

Lucky Strikes cigarettes

Lufkin, Daniel

Lupton, Jack

MacDonnell, Bob

McKinsey & Co.

McKnight, Bill

McLaughlin, Earle

McLean, Malcolm

Macomber, John

Johnson and
special committee and

Madison Fund

Magowan, Peter

Maher, James

background and education of
merger chief position accepted by
Philip Morris merger lost by
second round of bidding and
Malcolm, Greg
Maletta, David
Management agreement
Gutfreund’s views on
leaking of
Robinson’s view of

Management group.
See also specific people

bid of
Greeniau’s relationship with
Grierson’s demanding of resignation of
projections of
second round of bidding and
special committee’s meeting with
tension in
third bid of

Mancini, Frank

Manuche, Michael

Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.

Margulies, Ephraim

Marlboro cigarettes

Marron, Donald

Martin, Betty

Martin, John

background and education of
Johnson and
Kravis’s offer and
tender offer and

Masterpool, Mike

Mattingly, Don

Maxwell, Hamish

Medlin, John

special committee and

Merchant banking.
See also
Hostile takeovers; Leveraged buyouts

Meredith, Bob

Meredith, Don

Merger agreements

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
See also
Hostile takeovers

bank support for
The Group and
new civility in world of
RJR Nabisco’s fear of

Merkle, Ed

Merrill Lynch

Merry Men, the

Metropolitan Life Insurance

Meyers, Jack

Milken, Michael

Millard, Robert

Beattie and

Miller, Ward

Mitchell, Champ

Mitchell, Michael

Monetization

Montagu, David

Moravians

Morgan Stanley & Co.

leveraged buyouts and

Mullin, John H., III

Mulroney, Brian

Mulroney, Mila

Murdock, David

Murray, John

“mushroom farmers, the,”

Nabisco

Standard Brands merger with.
See also
Nabisco Brands

Nabisco Brands

and cookie wars
Johnson’s lack of interest in
RJ Reynolds Industries merger with.
See also
RJR Nabisco
sale of
stock of

NCR

New Canaan Club Car

Newsweek

New York Public Library

New York Times, The

Nicklaus, Jack

Norwich, Billy

Nusbaum, Jack

protest letter of
second round of bidding and

N. W. Ayer

O’Brien, Bob

Ohlmeyer, Don

Options, stock

Orlowsky, Martin

Orr, Bobby

Owens, Dick

Owens-Illinois

Pace University

Paine Webber

Palmer, Arnold

Pantry Pride

Patterson, Ellmore (“Pat”)

Pay-in-kind securities (PIK)

Peck, George

Pension funds

Penske, Roger

Pepsi

Perella, Joe

resignation of

Perelman, Ronald O.

Performance incentives (bogeys)

Peskett, Tony

Pesketteers

Peterson, Jim

Philip Morris

The First Boston Group, hired by
stock of

Phillips, Charles (“Chaz”)

Pickens, T. Boone

Pillsbury

Pines, Howard

Pirie, Robert

Planters/Life Savers

Polychron, John

Ponderosa

Posvar, Dean

Powell, Jake

Powers, Jack

Premier cigarettes

Prince Albert tobacco

Pritzker, Jay

Harris and

Pritzker, Thomas

Procter & Gamble (P&G)

Project Alpha

Project Peach

Project Reo

Project Sadim

Project Smokescreen

Project Spa

Project Stretch

Project Tara

Prudential

Public relations.
See also
Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Montgomery

Quaker Oats

Rabbi trusts

Raether, Paul

second round of bidding and

Ralston Purina

Real cigarettes

Reed, John

Reggie! bars

Resource Holdings

Restructuring plan

Revlon

Reynolds, Dick

Reynolds, Katharine

Reynolds, Libby Holman

Reynolds, Nancy

Reynolds, R. J.

Reynolds, William

Reynolds, Zachary Smith

Rich, Gordon

Richman, John

Rinaldini, Luis

Risner, Ray

RJM Associates

RJ Reynolds Industries

board of directors of
corporate jets of
loading of
Nabisco Brands merger with
See also
RJR Nabisco
New Guard at
stock of
succession scramble at

RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company

cash flow of
diversification of
history of
layoffs by
limited partnership idea for
rumors about
stock of
values of
worker programs of

RJR Nabisco

anti-Johnson backlash in
antitakeover provisions of
asset use vs. abuse at
Atlanta move of
auction of assets of
board of directors of
bonds of
caste system of
charter of
Cohen-Kravis meeting about
compensation committee of
corporate aircrafts of
diversification of
divestitures of
due diligence and
early retirement program of
Gerstner as CEO of
image problem of
income of executives of
International Advisory Board
Johnson’s loss of interest in
lawsuits against
leveraged buyout of
announcement
management agreement
management group bid for
“Other Uses of Cash” and
perks provided by
press releases of
Project Smokescreen and
public relations of
reorganization of
rumors about
salaries paid by
security system of
severance provisions of
Sticht’s ouster from
stock of
buyback
restricted
Standard Brands purchase
Wilson’s ouster from

Robbins, Clifton S.

Robert M. Schaeberle Technology Center

Roberts, George

background and education of
The Drexel Problem and
due diligence and
in peace talks
at RJR Nabisco board meeting
second round of bidding and

Robertson, Stewart

Robinson, Edward J.

due diligence and

Robinson, James D., III

background and education of
Cohen and
Forstmann and
Johnson’s friendship with
Kravis and
management agreement as viewed by
marriage of
in peace talks
second round of bidding and

Robinson, Linda

career climb of
Kravis and
tender offer and

Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Montgomery

Rocco (Johnson’s German shepherd)

Rockefeller, David

Roehm, Axel

Roehm, Carolyne (formerly Jane Smith)

Rogers, Peter

Rohatyn, Felix

Roman, Harry

Rosen, Matthew

Finn’s friendship with