Day: July 2, 2012

The 2012 Gala: Raining down good cheer

Rain or shine, the Anglo-American Press Association’s Annual Gala is one of the year’s highlights. This year it was definitely rain. But the inclement weather dampened no…


An Evening with Guy Wyser-Pratte

  We were twenty-odd members and guests, and with a "terrorist" in our midst at John Morris'  loft on the evening of June 11th.   The "terrorist" label for Guy Wyser-Pratte came from a French financial journal that called him an ex-marine qui terrorize nos patrons.  Wyser-Pratte, who has been called other names, including corporate raider, in his forty years of shareholder activism, did not…