Chasen stepped aside and Wiedemann, a Zell-backed board appointee, recommended Henderson to run the business.

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But Hess himself was close to many of his fellow veterans, including Fritz Wiedemann, according to daughter Ursula Hess.

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Even the new U.S. ambassador, Kent Wiedemann, was robbed at gunpoint of his mobile telephone during an evening stroll with his wife.

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There's more to be made if Wiedemann can keep up Henderson's record.

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Hair stylist Ted Gibson, who just cut model Elettra Wiedemann's hair into a Kloss-like style, suggests a long bob, also called a "lob, " for those with curly hair.

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Wiedemann is a more astute politician than his predecessor.

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George Wiedemann is in the hot seat.

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And Wiedemann, who became a top aide to Hitler from 1934 to 1939 before becoming Germany's consul in San Francisco through 1941, helped connect Hess to Hans Heinrich Lammers, the head of the Reich Chancellery during Hitler's reign.

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Just ask Wiedemann's predecessor, Gene M.

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Wiedemann has big expansion plans.

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But Wiedemann, who founded the direct marketing unit of Grey Global Group (nasdaq: GREY - news - people ) and until a few months ago was running Responsys, a Silicon Valley online marketing firm, does the bidding of one of America's most implacable bosses: Chicago billionaire Samuel Zell .

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