The Boston Globe, July 12th, 1998
About this time every year, investment banker Herb Allen holds his big media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Some 100 Bigs arrived last Monday for a few days of horseback riding, whitewater rafting, and schmoozing. Remember when Warren Buffett brokered the sale of the ABC television network and the rest of Capital Cities to The Mouse (as Walt Disney Co. is known in the trade) during a stroll in the parking lot? Nicely timed, it coincided with this year's Allen conference news that editor Tina Brown soon would be departing The New Yorker for Disney's world. The 44-year-old Brown is joining the...
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