Mr. Marsh, who died Tuesday at age 80, launched Snapple in New York with twofriends in the early 1970s to supply natural fruit juices to health-food stores.
Instead, a prominent New York public-relations executive who is close with the Kochs put forward twofriends: George Pataki, the former governor of New York, and Mortimer Zuckerman, the publisher and real-estate magnate.