Interesting excerpts: > The list of people he knew, some of whom met him through a California high technology business venture in 1970 reads like a Who’s Who.

Interesting excerpts: > The list of people he knew, some of whom met him through a California high technology business venture in 1970 reads like a Who’s Who. They include justice William A. Newsom of the 1st District Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Helene von Damm, President Reagan’s personal secretary. Thomas A. Franzioli, banker to the Boston Cabot family, Emanuel Fthenakis, Fairchild Corp. senior vice president. Elmer Bobst, president of Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.; and Albert Driscoll, former New Jersey governor and Warner Lambert’s chairman. > TCI’s high powered directors – one was J. Paul Getty Jr. son of the oil billionaire – thought enough of von Bolschwing to make him the firm’s president in 1970.