September 16th, 2006, 02:43 PM
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Wrangler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mays Landing, NJ
Posts: 11,787
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Magazine publisher William B. Ziff Jr. dies
http://online.wsj.com/public/article...f_main_tff_top
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His PC Magazine became the leading consumer magazine about computers, ranked by Advertising Age as the ninth-largest magazine by revenue in the country in 1991.
In 1994, with Mr. Ziff's assent, his sons -- who owned most of the business through a trust set up by Mr. Ziff -- sold most of the company for $1.4 billion to New York-based Forstmann Little & Co. (The company, now known as Ziff Davis Media Inc., has since been resold twice
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