How do you celebrate the milestone birthday of a guy who has $3 billion? In T. Boone Pickens’ case, it was with a party at the Dallas Country Club starring comedian Dennis Miller and Idol’s Katharine McPhee. Pickens’ wife Madeleine didn’t stop at that, though: To mark Boone’s 80th, she also restored his boyhood home in Holdenville, Okla., and had it relocated to the couple’s ranch in Roberts County. That’s a detail from Pamela Gwyn Kripke’s great profile of the energy magnate in the June issue of D CEO.
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Boone picked up a little present for himself to…
Yahoo Investors Back Icahn as Company Weighs Options (Bloomberg via LAT)
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, pressing Yahoo Inc. to rekindle takeover talks with Microsoft Corp., won more support from shareholders as the Internet company weighed new proposals from its former suitor.
T. Boone Pickens, chairman of BP Capital, bought 10 million shares, or less than 1 percent of Yahoo, after Icahn said he would seek to oust its directors if they failed to combine with the software maker.
why didnt he rename Oklahoma State University for his birthday?
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T. Boone didn’t rename OSU, but he did leave another $100 million there: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052208dnmetpickens.152d3ba1.html