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>Robert Maxwell history [intel, agency, wealth, [CLAS 1-99]]?

Published: December 04, 1988

MIDWAY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON OF SEPT. 26, ROBERT S PIRIE, PRESIDENT of Rothschild Inc., waits anxiously in the salmon-colored dining room opposite his office at 1 Rockefeller Plaza.

A hulking figure with an unruly gray mane, Pirie is expecting a telephone call from Robert Maxwell, the much-feared British media magnate. During the last two months, the 54-year-old Pirie has been serving as chief tactician in Maxwell's offensive against Macmillan Inc., the publishing giant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101113104933/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/magazine/meagdealer-for-the-rothschilds.html