He has whipped John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, who tried unsuccessfully to reduce the 5%-of-sales fee his client, record producer Jack Douglas, had arranged with Lennon before the ex-Beatle was assassinated in 1980.

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He whipped John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, who tried unsuccessfully to reduce the 5%-of-sales fee that his client, the record producer Jack Douglas, had arranged with Lennon before the former Beatle was assassinated in 1980.

FORBES: Steel Wrapped In Velvet

CNN's Jack Hannah and Douglas Hyde contributed to this report.

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Douglas Brinkley, editor of the Library of America edition of Jack Kerouac's Road novels.

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"Jack Hanley brought big-league thinking to a nonprofit industry, " says Douglas Tieman, head of the Caron Foundation, a Pennsylvania treatment center.

FORBES: Money -- and management