Some of those CEOs also want to avoid the antics of some Connecticut hedge fund manager who has his eye on a new boat and is demanding share repurchases and quick stock gains.

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The outdoors and the markets came together for Bacon through one of his first jobs, as a captain on a fishing boat owned by a man named Walter Frank, a stock specialist on the New York Stock Exchange.

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