Marshall Loeb, the former editor of Fortune and Money and now a columnist for Marketwatch.com, writes about his six-decade career Tuesday as he celebrates his 80th birthday.
“One of them is Nelson Mandela. He is the most important African who ever lived and he gave me the best interview I’ve ever had. I got it largely because I asked for it, at the right time.
“Freed from a South African jail after 27 years as a political prisoner, Mandela received me for an hour in his Johannesburg office. The interview was memorable for me because he was articulate, engaging, reassuring — and he had a message to deliver. If his Black African Congress party won the forthcoming national elections, Western business people, Mandela said, need not fear what a black government would bring to South Africa. Mandela made clear to me that he would not nationalize or expropriate their investments.”
Read more here. Here’s an interview I did with Loeb earlier this year.
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Iwonder if Marshall Loeb remembers me. I was Sallie Rubin then and contemplating attending Journalism School in Missouri. We were dating friends and his mother was going to get me into her sorority. If This message ever gets to him I would love to here from him. I, too, just turned 80 and have written a children's book which I would love to send to him as a gift. Thanks
HAPPY B=DAY MARSHALL, YOUVE COME A LONG WAY FROM WILCOX STREET