Re: Marcy and Henry

From: Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_gmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:57:15 -0700

Are you sure you're not getting him mixed up with Nicolai Turetsky?
--J

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com> wrote:

> Nick was a good friend of mine while I was growing up in Malibu; I
> somehow never realized that he was Henry Nicholas of Broadcom fame/
> infamy.
>
> ("Strategy and Tactics" was a magazine published back then; it means
> hex-map based wargames.)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_T._Nicholas_III
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:18 PM, barkofdelight wrote:
>
> > This year's California Proposition 9 ("number 9....number 9")
> > is also called "Marcy's law" after Marcy Nicholas, a woman
> > murdered in 1983. Her brother, an internet billionaire named
> > Henry, is a major financial contributor to the proposition.
> >
> > It turns out that both of them were Samohi students. Henry
> > graduated in '77 and Marcy in '80. Henry was in Forensics,
> > the Science fiction club and the "Strategy and tactics" club
> > (whatever that means). [1]
> >
> > Apparently Henry often went by the name "Nick Nicholas".
> >
> > Bark!
> >
> > [1] Source: '77 Nautilus
> >
> >
> >
>
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