Regardie's Magazine articles from June 1990

Regardie's Magazine archives from June 1990

Blue smoke and rearview mirrors: why is Iacocca bashing American consumers? (Lee A. Iacocca)
June 1, 1990... IN THE DREAM LEE IACOCCA KICKS DOWN my door with one slam of his foot and is on me in two pantherlike strides. He lifts me up by my necktie, the glint from his pinkie ring momentarily blinding me. Okay," he says in that gravelly voice of...

The mouth that soared. (Audrey Moore's victory against Virginia's progrowth movement)
June 1, 1990... Among the big winners in Richmond's zoning battle this year was surprise--Audrey Moore. DID YOU EVER WONDER if maybe the Trojans, and not the Greeks, really won the Trojan War, and the Greeks just got to the media first? That's the...

Tip sheet on the mayor's race. (Washington D.C.)
June 1, 1990... Watch the Champ try to make a chump out of Lord Fauntroy along the Campaign trail as Pale Rider gains despite his distemper. 1. John Pay LAST MONTH: 4- 1; THIS MONTH: 4.1 POTENTIAL WAR CHEST :$1.5 MIL Bashing business was X-RAY's spring...

The subject: Maurice Turner. (portrait of Washington, D.C. mayoral candidate)
June 1, 1990... 1. Maurice Turner's nickname is a) "Big Mo" c) "Tubby" b) "Joe" d) Slugger" Answer: "Joe," because of his size and broad shoulders at birth. His parents thought he'd grow up to be another Joe Louis. At 6'2" and about 250 pounds, his...

The art of the deal-maker. (lawyer Marvin Willig)
June 1, 1990... THE PARTNERS WERE WORRIED. They'd come to Las Vegas to close a deal with Marvin Willig, but he'd vanished. After a two-hour preliminary meeting he'd ducked out with no explanation. For three days they'd called all over town trying to find him,...

Giving up the ghosts. (Montgomery Journal's Blair Lee, IV)
June 1, 1990... LAIR LEE IV HAS MADE PEACE with his ghosts, which is not a bad thing to do when you live in the kind of mental haunted house that is bound to bedevil a person who has a four trailing his name. Sure, some of Lee's ghosts are friendly little...

Obsession. (Ed Digges, Jr. fraud case)
June 1, 1990... The morning is sunny and promising, but the tiny brick outbuilding has a death grip on last night's early spring chill. Ten feet away, in a sweater and cotton trousers, Ed Digges, Jr., seems oblivious to any discomfort; he's too busy...

A tempest in the teacups. (the subdividing of Washington, D.C.'s Massachusetts Avenue Heights)
June 1, 1990... MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU LOVE, BUT YOU'D think that it could buy you a mansion in an exclusive neighborhood where it's understood that bulldozers and chain saws aren't welcome. But, my dear, some artless developers have dared to come to...

Here comes the bribe. (adapted from Feeding the Beast: How Wedtech Became the Most Corrupt Little Company in America)
June 1, 1990... THEY WERE SIPPING DRINKS AT poolside in the Florida sunshine, trying to forget the troubles they'd left behind in the South Bronx, when Fred Neuberger posed the final solution. "I'm going to shoot the son of a bitch," he snarled. John...

The baying of the news hounds. (reminiscences of journalists of the 1950s)
June 1, 1990... AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THE MAIN reason that the newspaper business used to be so interesting was that newspaper people knew the most interesting people: other newspaper people. Ifs a far different ball game today. There are very few...

Northwest passage. (industrial development in Montgomery County, Maryland)
June 1, 1990... WHAT FASCINATES HISTORIAN-DEMOGRAPHER Joel Garreau, the author of Nine Nations of America and the upcoming Edge City, is how new American cities are being built with no relation to the past. Ifs the biggest change in 100 years in America,"...

David Schutt. (I-270 Partnership's president David Schutt) (interview)
June 1, 1990... DAVID SCHUTT, A vice president of Mulligan/Griffin & Associates, is this year's president of the I-270 Partnership, a group of business executives who have organized to promote the Interstate 270 corridor in Montgomery and Frederick counties....

William Vose. (Donohoe Companies' William Vose, Washington, D.C. economic climate) (interview)
June 1, 1990... FOR THE PAST SEVEN years William Vose, a vice president of Donohoe Companies, has guided the development of the firm's Chevy Chase Pavilion, a 900,000-square-foot office-retail-hotel project located at Western and Wisconsin avenues. Vose,...

Southern migration. (Stafford County, Virginia's economic aspects)
June 1, 1990... A MARKET-BY-MARKET SURVEY OF SOME OF THE PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT THE CLOUD OF DOUBT THAT LOOMS over the Washington real estate market has been met with some optimism, as signs of a softened market in early 1989 gave way to an increase...

Jay Adams. (A. Smith Bowman Distillery's CEO John Adams, Jr., economic aspects of Fredericksburg, Virginia) (interview)
June 1, 1990... JOHN ADAMS, JR., the 45-year-old president and CEO of A. Smith Bowman Distillery, has been a prominent presence in the Fredericksburg area's business community since he moved the entire Bowman operation from Reston to Spotsylvania County more...