Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers

Author:Anne Summers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2018-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

In late March, Young Warwick Fairfax had given us a day’s warning that he was coming to New York, asking Sandra to book him a ‘moderate priced hotel’ and to send a car to pick him up from the airport. He arrived at our offices accompanied by Peter King, the South-African born executive who had replaced Greg Gardiner as CEO of Fairfax and an advisor whose function was never made clear. The weedy, bespectacled young man who had orchestrated the takeover that had shredded a great company, wrecked the careers of so many of my friends and had sent his tiny New York outpost reeling into an uncertain future seemed to me to be very ill-at-ease and immature. He was either ignorant or insensitive about the devastation he had wreaked. In Sandra’s office, as he and King flicked through copies of Ms. and Sassy, Warwick told us that we were being sold not because our efforts were not appreciated but because ‘it made no sense’ to keep us now the magazine division was being sold and there would be no one to manage us. He tried to tell us what a great opportunity he had given us: ‘Executives usually only ever get a salary,’ he said, ‘but we now had a chance to do something more.’ ‘Found our own dynasty?’ Sandra shot back at him. We had an awkward lunch at Café Un Deux Trois, the place where Sandra had first hatched the plan to get Fairfax to buy Ms. Young Warwick sipped his SevenUp, as Sandra tried hard to get him talking while we waited what seemed like forever for the food. Afterwards we guided them back to the Times Square subway station so they could return to Wall Street where, presumably, they were trying to raise more money to keep their deal in place. So, of course, were we.

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